Laurel Clark and Kalpana Chawla; and Israel's first astronaut, Ilan Ramon. The Columbia disaster came one week after the 17th anniversary of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger ...

What caused NASA’s Columbia space shuttle to break apart during re-entry, killing all seven astronauts and changing ...

NASA marked the 20th anniversary of the space shuttle ... Columbia.” Besides Ramon, Columbia’s last crew included commander Rick Husband, pilot Willie McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla ...

Reflecting on Kalpana Chawla’s legacy, this editorial urges readers to look beyond daily conflicts, focus on bigger goals, ...

The decision was heavily influenced by the lessons learned from the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters, both of which were caused by overlooked technical issues that resulted in the ...

Kalpana Chawla, born on March 17, 1962, was the first Indian woman to travel to space twice. Tragically, she lost her life in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster in February 2003. Despite her ...

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A NASA report on the last minutes of Space Shuttle Columbia cited problems ... and mission specialists David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark and Ilan Ramon, an Israeli ...

Chawla’s journey began in 1997, becoming the first Indian-born woman in space, and later serving on STS-107 in 2003, dedicated to microgravity experiments aboard Columbia. The STS-107 mission ...