Muthayya Vanitha

Space Age: Meet the Indian-origin women working on the final frontier… and owning it

by Chandu | Sep 8, 2021

(September 8, 2021) Back in 1963 cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made history by becoming the first woman in space aboard Soviet Union’s Vostok 6 spacecraft. By 1997 it was Indian-origin astronaut Kalpana Chawla’s turn to script history by becoming the first...