News. 20 years after Columbia explosion, UTA remembers NASA astronaut, alum Kalpana Chawla Chawla received her masters degree from UTA in 1984, and became the first Indian-born woman to go to space.

Chawla, 41, emigrated to the United States from India in the 1980s and became an astronaut in 1994. She was one of the seven astronauts killed aboard space shuttle Columbia, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003.

BOULDER, Colo. — Dr. Kalpana Chawla died when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated 16 minutes before it was supposed to land on Feb. 1, 2003, exactly 17 years ago this weekend.

On Feb. 1, 2003, CU astronaut Kalpana Chawla (MAeroEngr’86; PhD’88; HonDocSci’03) [middle left] and six other astronauts died when their Columbia space shuttle broke apart on re-entry to Earth. The ...

Tonight, we explore the legacy of Kalpana Chawla, the first American of Indian descent to travel to space, who gave her life in the pursuit of research, science and exploration.

The Institute of Space Commerce (ISC) arranged for the image of Dr. Kalpana Chawla, taken aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997, to be sent to the lunar surface as part of a 2024 mission led by ...

Chawla and six colleagues died in the Columbia shuttle disaster in 2003. A commercial cargo spacecraft bound for the International Space Station will fly under the name of a fallen NASA astronaut ...

Chawla logged a total of 30 days, 14 hours, and 54 minutes in space as part of the space shuttle missions STS-87 in 1997 and STS-107 in 2003. Astronaut Kalpana Chawla and her husband, Jean-Pierre ...

Kalpana Chawla was an Indian-born woman who became the first Indian American astronaut and the first Indian woman in space. Unfortunately she was among the seven crew members who perished on the Space ...

Chawla, mission specialist: "Kalpana was so much fun. What an amazing, smart woman, but what a really nice person, too." Ramon , payload specialist: "What I remember most about Ilan was his ...

NASA will dedicate a new supercomputer this week to honor the memory of astronaut Kalpana “KC” Chawla, one of the seven crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, lost Feb. 1, 2003.