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NASA marks Apollo, Challenger, Columbia tragedies on annual Day of Remembrance
And it includes Apollo I’s Virgil I ... He died alongside NASA astronauts Rick Husband, Kalpana Chawla, William McCool, David Brown, Laurel Clark and Michael Anderson. The ceremony paid ...
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As Sunita Williams’ return to earth begins, Kalpana Chawla remembered on her birth anniversary
Kalpana Chawla: Born on March 17 ... respectively. Her career at NASA began in 1995 when she was selected for the Astronaut Corps. In 1997, she made history on her first space mission, STS ...
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A look at Sunita Williams and Kalpana Chawla's shared love for ‘Samosas’; Here's who brought them into space
Sunita Williams and Kalpana Chawla shared a love for samosas, one of the most popular Indian snacks. (Photo by Handout / NASA / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO ...
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Kalpana Chawla’s Birth Anniversary: A Samosa Tale You Didn’t Know About The Space Legend
This birth anniversary, we are tracing her Indian roots and honouring the legend with a ‘ Samosa ’ story that you might haven’t heard. Kalpana was fond of Indian cuisine and especially samosas were ...
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East Texas marks 22 years since space shuttle Columbia tragedy
Many gathered at the Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum in Hemphill to remember ... (the pilot), David Brown (mission specialist), Kalpana Chawla (mission specialist), Laurel Clark (mission ...
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Kalpana Chawla’s Legacy
The STS-107 mission ended in disaster when Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, resulting in the loss of all seven crew members, including Chawla. NASA’s investigation ...
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Kalpana Chawla's tragic space accident influenced NASA's decision to bring Sunita Williams home on SpaceX Dragon instead of Boeing Starliner
NASA has decided that astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who launched to the ISS aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in June 2023, will return to Earth aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule in ...
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NASA's Day of Remembrance: Three tragedies that shook the space program
Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...