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 ...

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This Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we’re highlighting people whose contributions have often been overlooked. Tonight, we explore the legacy of Kalpana Chawla, the first American ...

Palo Alto flight instructor Rich Acuff got out of bed early Saturday to see his friend Kalpana Chawla fly overhead in the ultimate airplane -- the space shuttle. Acuff, who flew with Chawla in small ...

Sanjogta Kharbanda, the mother of late NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) astronaut Kalpana Chawla, urged parents to motivate and guide the younger generation to aim high in life, ...

On Wednesday morning, the NG-14 Cygnus spacecraft will depart from the International Space Station (ISS) where it has been parked for the past three months. It was sent to deliver precious science ...

Born in Haryana’s Karnal on March 17, 1962, Kalpana Chawla was one of the first women to pursue aeronautical engineering at the Chandigarh-based Punjab Engineering College. Kalpana was called by her ...

We're bringing this story back on the 21st anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia disaster. Twenty years after NASA’s Columbia space shuttle exploded over Texas, the University of Texas at ...

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 ...

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