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.

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 ...

Kalpana Chawla, born on March 17, 1962, was the first Indian woman to travel to space twice. Tragically, she lost her life in ...

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 ...

Could a 4-year-old girl be a reincarnation of Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla [Images] who met her ... Four-year-old Upasana has begun to draw huge crowds to Nar Mohammadpur village ...

Kalpana Chawla has been looked up to as an inspirational woman and is a role model for many. The first Indian woman in space. Kalpana Chawla lived life to the fullest and made some head-turning ...

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 ...

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 ...