AN INDIAN AMERICAN WOMAN IN SPACE

—KALPANA CHAWLA

U.S. Space shuttle COLUMBIA , carrying India –born

American astronaut Kalpana Chawla and six others ,
broke apart in flames on Sat. 1 Feb 2003 ,killing all
seven on board. Kalpana Chawla said that never dreamed,
as a child in Karnal, that she would cross the frontiers of
space .
After a Bachelor of Science degree aeronautical
engineering , she went for a master”s degree to the
United states of America . She was the first Indian-
American woman astronaut , who participated in a
successeul mission in space .
• Kalpana Chawla was born in Karnal,
Haryana, but she was a U.S. citizen
married to flight instructor Jean Pierre
Harrison, in 1994. She was selected by
NASA for training as an astronaut.
Kalpana”s first space mission in the space
shuttle, Columbia, was 15 days,16 hours
and 34 minutes long.
•During this time she went 250 times,
traveling 10.45 millions km.
On the Saturday
night when the
news about the
Columbia disaster
broke, there was
shock and
disbelief
For millions of young
Indians, the story of
Kalpana Chawla, a girl
from a small town who
touched the skies, had
become an inspiration.
• Finding words for given meanings in
the box :-
• (A) never happened or existed in the
past
• (B) the height above the sea –level
• (C) an air craft that travels between
two places
• (D) to send something out
• (E) natural calamity

Contd…
 • (F) containing a
lot of
information
• (G) to satisfy

Shuttle, launch, unprecedented,

altitude
Disaster, fulfil, encyclopaedic
knowledge
2. Matching words of the same meaning :-
A B
(a)Unprecendented something that causes

space tragedy feelings of respect and

wonder
(b) Certified flight having knowledge of a
instructor wide variety of subjects
(c) Space mission nowadays in these times
(d) Super specialisation a set of jobs to be done
in space by a group
 A B
(e) Encyclopaedic knowledge a person with the corr
ect qualification to
teach people to fly planes
(f) Awe-inspiring a sad accident of a kind
that has never happened
before in space
(g) In this age great expertise in a limited
field or particular subject
3. Forming opposites by adding “un” for e.g.
True or untrue
(i) identified-------------- (ii)successful ------------------------
(iii)important-------------(iv)educated------------------------
(v) answerable-------------- (vi) insteresting--------------•
(vii) qualified-----------------
4. Matching opposites:-

A B

(i)Over Unfortunately

(ii) Lost bachelor

(iii)Married Below
5. Given below are some words that are spelt
differently in British and American
English.Fill in the blanks accordingly:-

British American
(i)Colour _____________
(ii) _________ Labor
(iii) __________ Traveler
(iv) Counsellor _________________
(v) Centre ___________________
(vi) ___________ Theater
6. Suffixes

(i) Sleepless -- Sleep+less

(ii)Successful -- Success+ful

(iii) Household -- House+hold

7. Pick out the Nouns from the following:-

(i) Columbia. (II) India (iii) America (iv) Chandigarh

(V) NASA (vi) Karnal (vii) Haryana (viii) Ukrain
 Kalpana Chawla___________________________________________Tagore
school
Q. 1 What was Kalpana Chawla?

Q.2 Did her parents allow her to attend engineering

college ?
Q3 What did Kalpana Chawla never dream of?

Q.4 From where did she complete her graduation?

Q.5 Find a word in the passage which means

“permitted”?
Kalpana_____________________________an astronaut

Q.1 Where was Kalpana born ?

Q.2 To whom was she married ?

Q.3 Was she also a flight instructor ?

Q.4 when was Kalpana selected by NASA for

training as an astronaut ?

Q.5 Find a word in the passage which means

Kalpana”s first space mission_______________________56 millon Dollars

Q.1 Name the shuttle in which Kalpana was in the space?

Q.2 For how many days did she stay in the space?

Q.3 How many times did she go around the earth?

Q.4 who were other astronauts in the crew?

Q.5 what did the crew perform in the space?

Q.6 Find the opposite of “weaker” in passage.

Short Answer Type Questions:- (in about 30-40 words)

Q.1. Who was Kalpana Chawla?

Q.2. Where was she born?

Q.3. Why was she called a naturalised U.S. citizen?

Q.4. When was she selected by NASA for astronautal training?
Q.5. How long was the shuttle, Columbia in space?
Q.6. What did the astronauts perform after reaching in space?
Q.7. Is Kalpana dead or alive today?

Q.8. What did the journalist write about kalpana?

Long Answer Type Questions: (In about 60-
80 words)
Q.1. How did Kalpana become an astronaut?
Q.2. Describe Kalpana”s first space mission.
Q.3. What is her message to the students of
Chandigarh?
Activity:-

Q1:- Who is she?

Q.2 Write a paragraph about Sunita
Williams.
 Indebtedness to----
• DR(MRS)SUDHA SHARMA
Dy.Commissioner, NVS, R.O LKO
Mr.A.K.SHUKLA
Asst.Commissioner,NVS,R.O LKO
MR. Tej Sagar
Principal JNV Almora
MR. Vikram Joshi
Principal JNV U. S. Nagar
MS.VEENA RAWAT
P G T ENGLISH, JNV UTTARKASHI .

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 Presented By
Group 6

• Mr. M. Lal, JNV Mau

• Mr. Umesh Chaubey, JNV Lucknow
• Mr. R.B. Maurya, JNV Firozabad
• Mr. Haminder Singh, JNV Pithoragarh
• Mrs. Shabana, JNV Firozabad
• Miss Rajeshwari Yadav, JNV
Saharanpur