Kalpana Chawla, who gave wings to the young girls out there with her inspirational journey, was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. The tragedy took ...

All seven crew members on board were lost; one of them was Indian-American Kalpana Chawla, the first woman ... When Kalpana was a kid, she would gaze at the stars with her siblings.

Before Columbia’s Jan. 16 launch, Kalpana Chawla told a broadcast interviewer that she had been interested in space engineering since she was 14 or 15. She said she looked forward to the ...

Kalpana Chawla did everything to live up to her motto, "follow your dreams." As a kid, Chawla was always enthralled by aviation, and she used to visit loal flying clubs with her father frequently. In ...

Almost one and a half years after the tragic disaster of the Nasa space shuttle Columbia, one of its crew, the late Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla has been honoured by the New York City ...

As a child, Kalpana Chawla used to love drawing airplanes. She received a degree in Bachelors of Aeronautical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh. She then moved to the ...