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 ...

Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar visited IIT Hyderabad to review the institute's progress, inaugurating the Kalpana Chawla ...

US-based aerospace and defence company Northrop Grumman is naming its next spacecraft after Kalpana Chawla -- the first woman of Indian-origin to travel to space. The SS Kalpana Chawla would be ...

Amid allegations of a new-born baby being swapped at the Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College (KCGMC) in Karnal, the ...

He is the third Indian-American astronaut to join NASA after Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams. NASA aims to put a man and a woman on the moon in 2024. Eleven new astronauts graduated from NASA ...

Ms Bandla is the second woman born in India to go to space after Kalpana Chawla who died when the Columbia Space Shuttle crashed at re-entry in 2003. The rocket flew high above New Mexico in the ...

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Orbital, which features six astronauts on a space station, is about perception, about the idea of ‘big’ and ‘small’, ‘reality’ and ‘illusion’ and about taking a hard ...