Kalpana Chawla was born on March 17, 1962, in Karnal, Haryana and is regarded as a striking astronaut for playing a leading role on the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997. Working at the forefront of ...

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 ...

Born in Haryana’s Karnal on March 17, 1962, Kalpana Chawla was one of the first women to pursue aeronautical engineering at the Chandigarh-based Punjab Engineering College. Kalpana was called by ...

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).