PUMPA - SMART LEARNING

எங்கள் ஆசிரியர்களுடன் 1-ஆன்-1 ஆலோசனை நேரத்தைப் பெறுங்கள். டாப்பர் ஆவதற்கு நாங்கள் பயிற்சி அளிப்போம்

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Haryana
second
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NASA
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Kalpana Chawla
Columbia
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Indian-American
This chapter is about the rise and fall of
, The world's first
woman in space. She was a small-town girl from
 who had studied
 engineering. She went to the USA for her masters in
 Engineering and became a
. She became an American citizen by getting married to Jean-Pierre Harrison, a fellow flight instructor. Her next steps to ascension after completing her 
in Aerospace engineering was to apply to NASA.
hired her as a research scientist, following which she had applied for the space shuttle programme and received training to become an 
.

Her first mission was to conduct experiments with her crew while orbiting the earth on "The
". The experiments involved Biology, Metallurgy, and semiconductor electronics. The mission lasted around 16 days, the entire crew had circled the globe over 250 times travelling a distance of about 10.5 million kilometres and collected a lot of valuable data.


But
  struck her crew when they had ventured to outer space on their
trip on-board the same Columbia which 
into flames while returning and had crashed in
. The shuttle had lost contact at over 200,000 feet while returning, there were no survivors, and it was a great loss as some of the best space scientists, had 
in the accident. The whole world mourned their loss.

Kalpana Chawla is a national  
 and a shining star in her field of Aerospace Engineering. She had mentioned that
 is never an obstacle to achieve greatness. Her message was that the
to one's dreams exist and they must have the courage to achieve greatness with hard work and determination.