As everyone waits for the safe return of Sunita Williams, they also remember Kalpana Chawla on her birthday. The Indian American astronaut was killed in 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia and the crew ...

Grieving relatives and friends laid garlands of marigolds across a picture of Columbia astronaut Kalpana Chawla Sunday in accordance with Hindu tradition, remembering the first Indian-born woman in ...

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. Chawla was the ...

BOULDER, Colo. — It's been 16 years since University of Colorado Boulder alum Kalpana Chawla lost her life when the Space Shuttle Columbia aircraft disintegrated during its re-entry into Earth's ...

LA PORTE, Tex. -- Inside a barn-like hangar that sits on a wide green field at the municipal airport here, Debby Rihn ran her hand along the smooth hide of a Pitts S2-B and remembered Kalpana Chawla. ...

As Sunita Williams and Butch Willmore make their journey back to Earth aboard the Crew Dragon capsule, it is impossible not to think of Kalpana Chawla, who died along with six more astronauts when the ...