FITTING MEMORIAL
Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee named the country's first meteorological satellite Kalpana to honor Kalpana Chawla, the 41-year-old Indian-born mission specialist lost in the Columbia accident. An aeronautical engineer and avid pilot, she began work at NASA Ames Research Center in...
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