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 ...

NASA has decided that astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who launched to the ISS aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in June 2023, will return to Earth aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule in ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Growing up in a town close to Karnal, the birthplace of Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian woman astronaut, I had felt a great sense of grief when the news of her death on Space Shuttle Columbia aired ...