An US resupply mission to the International Space Station dedicated to Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla lifted off at 6.46am (IST) on Saturday
US mission named after Kalpana Chawla MUMBAI : An US resupply mission to the International Space Station dedicated to Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla lifted off at 6.46am (IST) on Saturday from Nasa’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. The spacecraft is Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus and it is a joint Nasa-Northrop Grumman mission. It is carrying nearly 8,000 pounds of scientific investigations, technology demonstrations and other types of cargo and will arrive at the space station on Monday. Northrop Grumman tweeted: “We honour Kalpana Chawla, who made history at @NASA as the first female astronaut of Indian descent. Her contributions to human spaceflight have had a lasting impact” adding, “Chawla was selected in honour of her prominent place in history as the first woman of Indian descent to go to space”. Also Read: US spacecraft named after late Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla Nasa stated Kalpana’s area of speciality was flight dynamics. Some of the experiments and cargo flying on Kalpana Chaw…
