At the Kennedy Space Center, the Indian flag has found place. All to pay tribute to Kalpana Chawla, the India born astronaut who was on Columbia, the space craft that disintegrated on February 1 ...

Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian-born woman to go to space in 1997 ... information about Chawla's life, and a flag that was flown over the Johnson Space Center during a memorial for the ...

Tonight, we explore the legacy of Kalpana Chawla, the first American of Indian descent to travel to space, who gave her life in the pursuit of research, science and exploration. In 1997 ...

Kalpana Chawla was born in India; but, earned her Master's Degree ... The memorial was erected in 2010 and includes pictures, a flight suit and a flag that flew over the Johnson Space Center ...

Kalpana Chawla was born on March 17, 1962 in Karna, India. However, officially her birth is dated on July 1, 1961 for her matriculation exam eligibility. On November 19, 1997 she became the first ...

NEW DELHI, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- India Saturday mourned the loss of astronaut Kalpana Chawla, one of seven killed in the Columbia space shuttle tragedy. Chawla, 42, born in the northern Indian town of ...

Kalpana Chawla's name remains immortal in space history. Indian-origin astronaut Sunita Williams is on her way to Earth after an extended nine-month stay at the International Space Station (ISS).

After the much awaited return of the two stranded astronauts, Sunita Williams & Butch Wimlore, India remembers the brave Kalpana Chawla made the nation proud at global platform and inspired women ...

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 ...

Tonight, we explore the legacy of Kalpana Chawla, the first American of Indian descent to travel to space, who gave her life in the pursuit of research, science and exploration. PBS News Hour is ...

Kalpana Chawla — the name that leaves almost all Indians with pride— the first Indian-born woman to fly in space, was born in Karnal, Haryana on March 17, 1962. Kalpana Chawla first flew on ...