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Kalpana Chawla name for US spacecraft
September 14 , 2020
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- Northrop Grumman, an American global aerospace and defence technology company, announced that its next Cygnus capsule will be named the “S.S. Kalpana Chawla”.
- In November 1996, Chawla was assigned as a mission specialist on STS-87 aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.
- This makes her the first Indian born woman to fly in space.
- Her second spaceflight experience came in 2001 when she was selected for the crew of STS-107.
- She lost her life in 2003 when the Space Shuttle Columbia explosion while re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
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