New Delhi: The death of Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla and six others on February 1, 2003, when the space shuttle ...

Banarasi Lal Chawla, the father of India’s first female astronaut and aerospace engineer late Kalpana Chawla, was admitted at the Karnal’s Amritdhara hospital a few days ago and he breathed ...

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 ...