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.

Northrop Grumman engineers mate the Cygnus service module with the pressurized cargo module to complete the S.S. Kalpana Chawla for the NG-14 mission at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

Chawla's husband, also a UTA graduate, donated the items to the memorial. "Even seeing her name around campus in little spaces reminds me of the big things that she accomplished," says Ward ...

Kalpana Chawla- 1st Indian woman in space, was killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on February 1, 2003. ... Kalpana’s full name is pronounced CULL-puh-na CHAV-la and her nickname was K.C.

India renamed MetSat-1 to Kalpana-1 in the honour of Kalpana Chawla. Currently, India and the United States run scholarships, universities and institutions on her name to honour the brave astronaut.

The name of Kalpana Chawla evokes mixed emotions. There is a deep sense of pride as well as grief. She was the first Indian woman who went to space in STS 107, Columbia’s 28th mission, which ...

Chawla and six colleagues died in the Columbia shuttle disaster in 2003. A commercial cargo spacecraft bound for the International Space Station will fly under the name of a fallen NASA astronaut ...