Kalpana Chawla died in the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003.
Kalpana Chawla's spacecraft was named Space Shuttle Columbia. She was one of the astronauts on the ill-fated STS-107 mission in 2003 when the spacecraft tragically disintegrated upon re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.
Gus Grissom died on January 27, 1967, during the Apollo 1 spacecraft fire at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida.
Thankfully, everyone made it back to Earth safely.
The first astronaut to die was Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. He died in a plane crash on March 27, 1968.
Kalpana Chawla, who died in the Columbia shuttle disaster, and Sunita Williams, an active astronaut with NASA, are of Indian ancestry.
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She did not die!!! Sunita Williams (born September 19, 1965) is a United States Naval officer and a NASA astronaut. She was assigned to the International Space Station as a member of Expedition 14 and then joined Expedition 15. She holds the record of the longest spaceflight (195 days) for female space travelers.
Kalpana Chawla died in the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003.
The first Indian Astronaut was Rakesh Sharma, who was a pilot in the Indian Air force. Since then not many indians have gone to space. However there has been a few Indian origin ( who had Indians as their mother or father) astronauts at the NASA such as Kalpana Chawla ( died while re entry of the Space Shuttle Coloumbia), Sunita Williams.
go to www.wikapedia .com and type in name since their were quite a few of Dave Williams you will have to choose one of them.
Skilly Williams died on 1959-06-19.
Terry Williams - drummer - was born on 1948-01-11.
There were actually several songs that were found in the Cadillac that Hank Williams Sr. died in. He had a large number of songs that were written and never recorded, and some of them were recorded on an album called The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams.
Dave Williams died on August 14, 2002 at the age of 30.
Aubrey Williams died in 1990.
William Bright died in 2006.