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“Today we honour Kalpana Chawla, who made history at NASA as the first female astronaut of Indian descent,” Northrop Grumman, makers of Cygnus space craft that will be carrying the payload, announced in a tweet.

“Her contributions to human spaceflight have had a lasting impact. Meet our next #Cygnus vehicle, the S.S. Kalpana Chawla.”

US spacecraft to be named after late Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla
 
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