Kalpana Chawla, NASA astronaut and UTA alumna, was the first Indian woman to travel to space. Memorials in Nedderman Hall and ...

It’s been 22 years since space shuttle Columbia broke apart across the skies of East Texas. Many gathered at the Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum in Hemphill to remember the shuttle’s last flight ...

HEMPHILL, Texas (KTRE) - It’s been 22 years since space shuttle Columbia broke ... (pilot), David Brown (mission specialist), Kalpana Chawla (mission specialist), Laurel Clark (mission ...

Former chief election commissioner (CEC) Navin Chawla, who oversaw the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, passed away in Delhi on Saturday. He was 79. Navin Chawla was known for ushering in a key reform ...

Chawla was the first woman of Indian origin to travel to space. Born in Karnal, Haryana, she moved to the United States in the 1980s after earning her aeronautical engineering degree from Punjab ...

On Feb. 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart as ... mission specialists Kalpana Chawla, David Brown and Laurel Clark; and payload specialist Ilan Ramon. In 1865, abolitionist John ...

After working to improve the booster design and creating new management practices to improve safety, NASA relaunched shuttle flights on Sept. 29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center.

it is with deep, heartfelt sorrow. I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

After three months and ten days undergoing treatment and plastic surgery, 13-year-old Kalpana smiles again. She had endured severe torture for years while she was a domestic worker for residents of a ...

The temperature was predicted to be a record low for a Space Shuttle launch. 9:38 a.m. was the launch time and the temperature then was 26 degrees. Space Shuttle Challenger was about to lift off ...

The crewed shuttle mission for NASA ended moments after ... set to be one of the first “civilians” in space. A NASA investigation later found that cold weather and faulty O-rings on the ...