Extra Questions Answers An Indian-American Woman in Space:Kalpana Chawla

 Extra Questions with Answers Class 6 English Honeysuckle Chapter 4 An Indian-American Woman in Space:Kalpana Chawla

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Q.1. What is a space shuttle ? How is it different from a rocket ?
Answer:
A space shuttle is  a spacecraft that, unlike a rocket, can travel in space repeatedly.

Q.2. Where was Kalpana Chawla born ?
Answer:
At Karnal in Harayana.

Q.3. Which country did she become a citizen of ?
Answer:
She became the naturalised citizen of the US.

Q.4. Who did she marry and where ?
Answer:
She married an American flight instructor Jean Pierre Harrison.

Q.5. When did Kalpana join the NASA ?
Answer:
Kalpana joined NASA for training as an astronaut in 1994.

Q.6. How many times did she go around the earth in her first space mission ?
Answer:
252 times

Q.7. How many astronauts were there aboard the Columbia ?
Answer:
Three astronauts - Kalpana, a Japanese and a Ukranian.

Q.8. In this age of super-specialisation, you must have......... knowledge to become an astronaut. Put the right word in the blank space.
Answer:
encyclopaedic

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