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Priyanka Srivastava: The NASA space engineer behind Perseverance Rover’s successful landing on Mars

by Namrata Srivastava | Jun 15, 2022

(June 15, 2022) The year was 2003. The unfortunate news of Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrating over Texas during its re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere had overwhelmed the entire world. While India mourned the demise of Kalpana Chawla, a young girl in...

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...