The female astronaut who was killed in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster in 2003 was named Kalpana Chawla. She was a mission specialist on the STS-107 mission.
The list of several dozen female astronauts is at the link
Christa McAuliffe was the school teacher astronaut who was killed in the Challenger shuttle explosion in 1986. She was selected from thousands of applicants to be the first civilian in space as part of NASA's Teacher in Space Project.
Astronaut Charles Bolden was a contestant on Name That Tune in 1977.
She was killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.
The word astronaut is a noun, a word for a profession of people. The word astronaut is singular, common, abstract noun.
Her name was Kalpana Chawla.
Challenger
Christa McAuliffe
The list of several dozen female astronauts is at the link
Magenta and Columbia
neil astronaut is a astronaut his real name is neil armstrong
Christa McAuliffe was the school teacher astronaut who was killed in the Challenger shuttle explosion in 1986. She was selected from thousands of applicants to be the first civilian in space as part of NASA's Teacher in Space Project.
The Chandra X-Ray telescope was launched from Space Shuttle Columbia, during mission STS-93, between July 23-27, 1999. It also marked the first Shuttle mission led by a female commander, Astronaut Eileen Collins.
"Columbia" is the female personification of the New World, after Christopher Columbus, its generally credited discoverer.1 It is similar in concept to Britannia, the female image of Britain. The Statue of Liberty is in fact a statue of Columbia. So "British Columbia" actually means "British North America," although logically it would have made more sense to apply this name to the whole of Canada.1Columbus actually thought he had landed in India, hence the name "West Indies" for the Caribbean islands, and the term "Indians" for the native Americans. His name is also the origin of "District of Columbia" in Washington, D.C. and the Latin American country of Colombia.
No Steve Lovell is not a astronaut, only has the same name.
The name of the first astronaut to fly in space was Alan .b. Shepard.
Astronaut Charles Bolden was a contestant on Name That Tune in 1977.