Early on he developed expertise in micro-gravity. Jared received a powerful endorsement for the Kalpana Chawla Award. Wrote colleague Ron Garan: “I was not only an astronaut colleague of Kalpana ...

Chawla’s journey began in 1997 ... redesign spacecraft components, and improve astronaut training for catastrophic scenarios. 'Bone timing twist: Why we humans no longer grow jaws like the ...

Kalpana Chawla was born on March 17, 1962, in Karnal, Haryana and is regarded as a striking astronaut for playing a leading role on the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997. Working at the forefront of ...

As the second Indian-American astronaut in America, after the tragic Columbia disaster loss of Kalpana Chawla, Williams has left a lasting legacy in the history of space exploration. Williams ...

Sunita Williams has roots in India. She was the second American astronaut of Indian heritage to go into space, after Kalpana Chawla. Her father Deepak Pandya was a neuroanatomist and was born in ...

It is indeed a proud moment for us to have been launching Kalpana Chawla’s inspirational quotes and pictures in the form of NFTs on our platform. We are glad that through us and with the help of ...

Founded in 1962, the Kennedy Space Center has launched NASA astronauts from Neil Armstrong to Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams into space ... the opportunity to meet and interact with an actual ...