Kalpana Chawla
Kalpana Chawla
Unit: 1 (Lesson 3)
Kalpana Chawla
Read the passage and answer the questions 1 and 2.
Kalpana Chawla was born in Karnal, India. She
completed her earlier schooling at Tagore Baal Niketan Senior Secondary School,
Karnal .She is the first Indian–born woman and the second person in space
from this sub-continent. After graduation in Aeronautical engineering Collage, India
, in 1982,Chawla moved to the united States the same year. She obtained
her Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas in 1984.
Later she did her Ph. D in Aerospace Engineering in 1988 from the University of
Colorado.
Determined to become an astronaut even in the face of the Challenger disaster 1986
that broke apart 73 second into its flight , leading to the deaths of its seven
crew members, Chawla joined NASA in 1988
, she began working as a Vice President where she did Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) research on vertical take-off and landing . In
1991 she got U.S citizenship and started her career as a NASA astronaut in
1995. She was selected for her first flight in 1996. She spoke the following
words while travelling in the weightlessness of space, ‘’You are just your intelligence,’’
she has travelled 10.67 million miles, as many as 252 times around the Earth.
Kalpana Chawla’s first space mission (mission STS 87)
began on 19 November 1997 with six other astronauts on the space Shuttle
Colombia. ON her first mission that lasted for 15 days 16 hours,34 minutes and 4
second, she travelled 6.5 million miles. She was responsible for deploying
the Spartan Satellite which however malfunctioned, necessitating a spacewalk by
Winston Scott and Tako Doi, two of her fellow astronauts, to retrieve the
satellite.
In 2000 she
was selected for her second space mission STS 107. This mission was repeatedly delayed
due scheduling conflicts and technical problems. On 16 January 2003, Kalpana Chawla
finally started her new mission with six other space crew on the ill-fated
space shuttle in
Columbia. She
was one the mission specialists. Chawla’s responsibilities include the microgravity
experiments, for which the crew conducted nearly 80 experiments studying
earth and space science, advantaged technology development, and astronaut
health and safety.
After a 16-dayscientific mission in space, on 1 February 2003, Columbia including Chawla died only 16 minutes prior to their scheduled landing. Investigation shows that this fatal accident happened due to damage in one of
Columbia’s wings caused by a pieces of insulting foam from the external fuel tank peeling off during the launch. During the intense heat of re-entry, hot gases penetrated the interior of the wing, destroying the support structure and causing the rest of the shuttle to break down.
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A. Choose the best answer following alternatives.
a. Kalpana
Chawla born…
i. Channei ii. Kolkata
iii. Karnal iv. None of the
three
b. She
completing her schooling ….
i.
Tagore Bal Niketan Senior Secondary
School, Karnal
ii. Feni Govt collage iii. CMC
iv.
Kolkata university
c. Chawla moved to ….
i.
India
ii.
USA
iii. Dhaka
iv.
Bangladesh
d. Chawla moved in the USA
i.1982
ii.1983
iii.1984 iv. none
e. She took Ph.D. in
i.
Aerospace Engineering ii .English
iii. both
a,b iv. only i
f. Chowla
joined in NASA in…
i.1988 ii.1989
iii. both I, ii iv. only i.
g . She took
US citizenship in…
i.1991 ii.1998
iii.1988 iv. none
h. In 1995
she started her career ..
i .NASA
astronaut ii. NASA pilot
iii. NASA driver iv. NASA engineer
i. ‘’You are
just your intelligence ,’’ who ?
i. Chawla ii. Tereshkova
ii. Bill Clinton iv. None
j. she has
travelled -million miles…
i.10.67
ii.13.67
iii.10.66 iv.18.22
k. Kalpana Chawla died on…
i.1 February 2003 ii. 2 February
iii. 3 February iv. Only ii
l. Columbia express the opinion Chawla died only -prior to their
scheduled landing.
i.16 mins ii.19 mins
iii.20 minutes iv. only ii
m. The fatal accident happened due to damage…
i. wings ii. shuttle
iii. Foam v. Only i
n.. a pieces of insulting foam from the external…
I. external tank ii. internal tank
iii. external pond iv. internal pond
o.'Columbia ’was the name of
i. Country ii. state
iii. Shuttle space iv. Ship
The correct answer Choose the best answer are in bold
B. Answer the following questions:
a.
Who Kalpana Chawla?
b.
From where did she take Ph. D degree?
c.
Where was she born?
d.
How many times did she move around the
earth?
e.
What is the main theme of this passage?
f. When did she start her 2nd mission?
g. How many members were in the ill-fated shuttle?
h. Who was space specialist?
i. which were her responsivities?
j. What is the main theme of this passage?
k. When Kalpana Chawla died?
l .Why the fatal accident occurred?
m. Why fire occurred in the wing?
n. How many times fire occurred?
o. What is the main theme of this
passage?