An American commercial cargo spacecraft bound for the International Space Station has been named after fallen NASA astronaut Kalpana Chawla, the first India-born woman to enter space, for her key contributions to human spaceflight
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Unknown titlePRINT A A A File photo of Kalpana Chawla. | Photo Credit: AP/NASA “Chawla was selected in honour of her prominent place in history as the first woman of Indian descent to go to space,” it said. <span>An American commercial cargo spacecraft bound for the International Space Station has been named after fallen NASA astronaut Kalpana Chawla, the first India-born woman to enter space, for her key contributions to human spaceflight. 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 memory of the mission Summary
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