Joey Arora is the esteemed recipient of the Kalpana Chawla Outstanding Recent Graduate Award ... There, she met the crew of NASA’s 77th space shuttle mission and was inspired to pursue an advanced ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Dr. Kalpana Chawla died when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated 16 minutes before it was supposed to land on Feb. 1, 2003, exactly 17 years ago this weekend. Chawla was ...

The decision was heavily influenced by the lessons learned from the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, both of which were caused by overlooked technical issues that resulted in the ...

Chawla’s journey began in 1997, becoming the first Indian-born woman in space, and later serving on STS-107 in 2003, dedicated to microgravity experiments aboard Columbia. The STS-107 mission ...

Bharath Daka, Co-Founder and COO of Skyroot, added, `’With big missions ... Sunita Williams to Kalpana Chawla: Here’s a list of people of Indian origin who have been to space to date ...

Williams was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1998 and is a veteran of two space missions, Expeditions 14/15 and 32/33. Crew Flight Test mission involving Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is her ...

The secondary song, dedicated to flight engineer Kalpana Chawla, was Train’s “Drops of Jupiter.” Click the song titles to hear versions of both songs. STS-107 was the final mission for Columbia.