Kalpana Chawla was killed when the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry on February 1 2003.
Astronaut and research scientist Kalpana Chawla was killed on board the space shuttle Colombia during re-entry on 1 February 2003.
Kalpana Chawla died in the Columbia shuttle disaster on February 1, 2003. Her remains were recovered, cremated, and scattered over a national park in Utah.
why did kalpana chawla choose to become an astronaunt.
Kalpana Chawla was the first astronaut of Indian-American heritage and died in the Columbia shuttle crash in 2003. Her biography is available in multiple languages including Hindi.
Kalpana Chawla is famous for being the first Indian American astronaut, as well as the first Indian woman that was sent into space. She was killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster in 2003.
No, Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-American astronaut working for NASA, died on February 1, 2003 high above the state of Texas, due to the disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia during the time of its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. This accident is known today as the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster. Neither Chawla nor any astronaut has ever gone to Mars.
Kalpana Chawla was an astronaut who tragically died in the Columbia accident. She was trained for space engineering but i don't know whether that was her job or not.
Kalpana Chawla, who died in the Columbia shuttle disaster, and Sunita Williams, an active astronaut with NASA, are of Indian ancestry.
Columbia
Kalpana Chawla's interest in flying was inspired by J.R.D. Tata, an Indian pilot and industrialist.
Discovery.It is a space shuttle not a aircraft.
Space Shuttle Columbia