After the much awaited return of the two stranded astronauts, Sunita Williams & Butch Wimlore, India remembers the brave Kalpana Chawla made the nation proud at global platform and inspired women of ...

right now, we're counting down to three seconds. Toe landing? Yeah. They're supposed be landing right now. They're not here. Where are they? Yeah, you're hearing what I'm hearing from Mission Control.

A world away, she is a national hero, saluted in tearful newspaper tributes as “India’s Space Girl.” In Arlington, “K.C.” Chawla is remembered as a courageous explorer and a determined young graduate ...

The first women of Indian origin in space, Kalpana Chawla, would have been 55 today. A role model for many young women in India and around the world, Kalpana will always be remembered for her ...

NASA will dedicate a new supercomputer this week to honor the memory of astronaut Kalpana “KC” Chawla, one of the seven crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, lost Feb. 1, 2003. The ...

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 atmosphere ...

As Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore make their journey back to Earth aboard the Crew Dragon capsule, it is impossible not to think of Kalpana Chawla, who died along with six more astronauts when the ...