To honor her memory, New York City named the stretch of 74th Street between Roosevelt and 37th avenues after her in 2004. Known now as Kalpana Chawla Way, the street is a panoply of sari shops, Indian ...

News. 20 years after Columbia explosion, UTA remembers NASA astronaut, alum Kalpana Chawla Chawla received her masters degree from UTA in 1984, and became the first Indian-born woman to go to space.

Chawla's parents, two sisters and sister-in-law were in the United States waiting for her return, a family friend, Arun Sharma, said outside her brother's home in New Delhi.

Chawla, the first Indian-origin woman to go to space, remembered on her birth anniversary A file photo of Kalpana Chawla. She was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor and ...

As Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore safely return to Earth, the world remembers Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian-origin woman in space, whose legacy continues to inspire generations.