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. Hidden blueprint? 8 Shiva temples in India mapped centuries before ...

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 ...

Crew Flight Test mission involving Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is her third Barry "Butch" Wilmore, 61, is a NASA astronaut and U.S. Navy test pilot who is acting as the commander of Starliner.

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 ...

After Rakesh Sharma, Kalpana Chawla--the girl from Karnal, Haryana, is featured in a separate chapter. As the first Indian-origin American astronaut, Chawla scripted history in 1997 with her space ...