Northrop Grumman has announced that its next Cygnus capsule NG-14, will be named the "S.S. Kalpana Chawla,

Northrop Grumman has announced that its next Cygnus capsule NG-14, will be named the "S.S. Kalpana Chawla,.

Cygnus NG-14, previously known as CRS OA-14, is the fourteenth planned flight of the Northrop Grumman robotic resupply spacecraft Cygnus and its thirteenth flight to the International Space Station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The mission is scheduled to launch on 30 September 2020 at 02:26 UTC.[2] This is the third launch of Cygnus under the CRS-2 contract

Northrop Grumman has announced that its next Cygnus capsule NG-14, will be named the "S.S. Kalpana Chawla," in memory of the NASA mission specialist who died with her six crewmates aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 2003.

Chawala was the first Indian-born woman to enter space