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Kalpana Chawla was born on 17 March 1962 in a Punjabi Hindu family in Karnal, Haryana. [11] [12] The youngest of four children, she was born into a conservative society, but Chawla broke several traditions to become the first Indian-born female astronaut.
As of 2024, Four people of Indian origin have been in space. The first astronaut of the Indian nationality, in space was Rakesh Sharma on Soyuz T-11 in 1984. [ 1][ 2] Three astronauts – Kalpana Chawla, [ 3][ 4] Sunita Williams [ 5] and Raja Chari [ 6][ 7] – flew as NASA astronauts. Sirisha Bandla is the first and only Indian-born woman to ...
Logging[ edit] She was responsible for deploying the Spartan satellite. On her first mission, Chawla traveled over 10.4 million miles (16737177.6 km) in 252 orbits of the earth, logging more than 372 hours (15 Days and 12 Hours) in space. [6]
The first part of the system, named "Kalpana", was dedicated to Chawla, who had worked at the Ames Research Center before joining the Space Shuttle program. [79] The first dedicated meteorological satellite launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Metsat-1, was renamed to Kalpana-1 on February 5, 2003, after Chawla. [80] [81]
Rick Husband. Richard Douglas Husband (July 12, 1957 – February 1, 2003) was an American astronaut and fighter pilot. He traveled into space twice: as pilot of STS-96 and commander of STS-107. Husband and the rest of the crew of STS-107 were killed when Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
David M. Brown. David McDowell Brown (April 16, 1956 – February 1, 2003) was a United States Navy captain and NASA astronaut. He died on his first spaceflight, when the Space Shuttle Columbia ( STS-107) disintegrated during orbital reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. Brown became an astronaut in 1996 but had not served on a space mission ...
Biography. Born in Ramat Gan, Israel, to Tonya (1929–2003) and Eliezer Wolfferman (1923–2006), a family of Ashkenazi Jewish descent, Ramon grew up in Beersheba. His father was from Germany, and his family fled Nazi persecution in 1935. His mother and grandmother were from Poland, and were Holocaust survivors, having been in Auschwitz.
PATRICK WHITTLE and HOLLY RAMER. August 7, 2024 at 12:52 PM. The family of a French explorer who died in a submersible implosion has filed a more than $50 million lawsuit, saying the crew ...