Conceived by Mansa’s additional deputy commissioner Nirmal Ouseppachan, 2019-batch IAS officer, the lab — inaugurated on November 14 — aims to make complex astronomical concepts more ...

Chawla’s journey began in 1997, becoming the first Indian-born woman in space, and later serving on STS-107 in 2003, dedicated to microgravity experiments aboard Columbia. The STS-107 mission ...