In 1997, Kalpana Chawla realized her lifelong dream of traveling to space. She was the first American of Indian descent to accomplish that feat. Once it all seemed unimaginable.

Chawla logged a total of 30 days, 14 hours, and 54 minutes in space as part of the space shuttle missions STS-87 in 1997 and STS-107 in 2003. Astronaut Kalpana Chawla and her husband, Jean-Pierre ...

Indian astronaut Rakesh Sharma spent 7 days, 21 hours, and 40 minutes in space. Other Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, who ...

Remembering Kalpana Chawla On Her 53rd Birth Anniversary: ... Her first space mission came in November 1997 when she was assigned as a mission specialist and prime robotic arm operator on STS-87.

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.

Prior to the shuttle Columbia's launch, Chawla, who had logged more than 375 hours in space, told reporters that her inspiration to take up flying was J.R.D. Tata, who flew the first mail flights ...

Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-born woman who became the first Indian American astronaut and the first Indian woman in space. Unfortunately she was among the seven crew members who perished on the Space ...

SpaceNews First Up Audio; SpaceNews ... Cygnus space freighter named the S.S. Kalpana Chawla after the first female astronaut of Indian descent who also perished on the ill-fated STS-107 mission ...

Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian origin women to go in space. Here are some lesser known facts about the woman who the whole nation boast with pride. 01 Feb, 2024 ...

Kalpana Chawla first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997, as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator. (File) As a child, Chawla was very fascinated by aircrafts and flying.

A commercial cargo spacecraft bound for the International Space Station will fly under the name of a fallen NASA astronaut who was the first Indian-born woman to enter space.