Final voyage: Kalpana Chawla aboard Columbia space shuttle

Human space flight day | Taken on January 27, Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, STS-107 mission specialist, is pictured in the SPACEHAB Research Double Module aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. This is one of the last pictures of Kalpana Chawla taken before the shuttle disintegrated on February 1,2003.

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Human space flight day | Taken on January 27, Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, STS-107 mission specialist, is pictured in the SPACEHAB Research Double Module aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. This is one of the last pictures of Kalpana Chawla taken before the shuttle disintegrated on February 1,2003.

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Human space flight day | Taken on January 18 2003, Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist, works at an experiment rack in the SPACEHAB Research Double Module onboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

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Human space flight day | Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, STS-107 mission specialist, is pictured on the flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia just one day after the launch.

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Human space flight day | Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, STS-107 mission specialist, is pictured on the flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia just one day after the launch.

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Human space flight day | A photo of Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, STS-107 mission specialist, inside the Space Shuttle Columbia taken on 19 January 2003, three days after launch. Photo: NASA

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Human space flight day | Taken on 26 January 2003 | Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, STS-107 mission specialist, records data. Photo: NASA

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Human space flight day | Taken on 27 January 2003 | Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, STS-107 mission specialist, looks over a procedures checklist in the SPACEHAB Research Double Module aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. Photo: NASA

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Human space flight day | Taken on January 18, 2002 | The tunnel linking the SPACEHAB Research Double Module to the Space Shuttle Columbia's crew cabin provides an interesting point of view in this scene of astronaut Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist, performing work in SPACEHAB. PHOTO: NASA