Kalpana Chawla became the first Indian-born woman to go to space in 1997. Six years later, on February 1, 2003, Chawla died when the space shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry into Earth's ...

Kalpana Chawla was born on March 17 ... Kalpana was always driven by the mysteries of space. In childhood, she attended the flying clubs to see the planes with her father. Thus, after completing ...

All those who had hoped to know all about Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-American astronaut ... can go through her biography, written by her husband, Jean Pierre Harrison. The book is titled ''The ...

“Kalpana Chawla means to me: a guiding path,” said Singh. “I was into the aerospace field and space, but I [did] not know where to go. But when I read her biography, I got to know, these ...

Kalpana Chawla was the first woman of Indian origin ... Jean-Pierre Harrison wrote the authoritative biography on the astronaut titled, “The Edge of Time”. At Hindustan Times, we help you ...

Kalpana Chawla was the first woman of Indian-origin ... She was fascinated by planes and aircraft since her childhood... She always dreamt of the stars and somehow I feel she dissolved into ...

Indian student co-leads her team to win rocketry award in the US For Indian student Ankita Kalra, rocketry was never a part of the college curriculum at the Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT ...

However, Chawla took a different approach. She decided not to take samosas to space. Her husband, Jean-Pierre Harrison, author of “The Edge of Time: The Authoritative Biography of Kalpana Chawla ...