On February 1, 2003, the world lost Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla and six other crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, which broke apart during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere.
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 ...