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Kalpana Chawla was the Indo-American woman astronaut on board the space shuttle Atlantis. She was the first woman of Indian descent to go to space and tragically lost her life during the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
Seven astronauts lost their life's during the Columbia disaster.
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Ellison Onizuka was the first Asian American to "reach" space. He flew into space successfully with the Space Shuttle Discovery. He was killed during the mission as the Space Shuttle Challenger destructed.
On February 1st, 2003
The Shuttle Challenger was the first space shuttle to have a major disaster. It disintegrated during the launch process on 28 January 1986, and all hands were lost.
Kalpana Chawla was the second Indian woman to travel to space with Americans, as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997. She later tragically lost her life in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
If for some reason right then and there a star imploded and made a black hole and the space shuttle met it's unlikely demise.
The first space shuttle to explode during liftoff was the space shuttle Challengerin 1986. The second shuttle disaster occured on the 1st of Febuary 2003 to space shuttle Columbia. In boh disasters, 7 astronauts lost their lives.
Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian woman to travel twice into space. She was an astronaut who flew on two Space Shuttle missions: STS-87 in 1997 and STS-107 in 2003. Tragically, she lost her life in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
Endeavour was the fifth and final space shuttle to be built.