Multiple choice

The name of the spaceship in which Kalpana Chawla performed her last journey is:

  1. Columbia

  2. Voyager

  3. Discoverer

  4. Soyuz
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Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian-born woman in space, died during her final mission on the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107). The shuttle disintegrated upon re-entry on February 1, 2003, killing all seven crew members. Columbia was the oldest orbiter in NASA's fleet and had completed 27 previous missions before the fatal disaster.

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