Kalpana Chawla was on board to the spacecraft Columbia in 2003 and while it was time to re-entry, the space shuttle was pulled apart because there was a hole inwing caused by falling foam at the time of lift-off allowed the extreme heat of the re-entry process to enter the wing structure and cause landing problem.
Kalpna Chawla
Sunita Williams is an American astronaut, she was born in Ohio. She is of Indian and Slovenian descent, her father being the former and her mother the latter.
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So far no Indian has landed on the moon, a Indian astronaut Rakes h Sharma did go to space.
The first American to perform a space walk was Ed White in June 1965. He flew in the Gemini IV mission along with James McDivitt. White began his space walk while the spacecraft was over the Indian Ocean. He continued his walk over the Pacific Ocean. Astronaut White died in the Apollo 1 fire in 1967. This fire occurred during a training session at the launch pad.
Her name was Kalpana Chawla.
Kalpna Chawla
Kalpana Chawla's interest in flying was inspired by J.R.D. Tata, an Indian pilot and industrialist.
Kalpana Chawla, who died in the Columbia shuttle disaster, and Sunita Williams, an active astronaut with NASA, are of Indian ancestry.
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.
Rakesh Sharma
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.
Sunita Williams is an American astronaut, she was born in Ohio. She is of Indian and Slovenian descent, her father being the former and her mother the latter.
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Rakesh Sharma
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So far no Indian has landed on the moon, a Indian astronaut Rakes h Sharma did go to space.