Kalpana Chawla (July 1‚ 1961 – February 1‚ 2003) was an Indian-American astronaut with NASA. She was one of seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Contents[hide] * 1 Early life * 2 Education * 3 NASA career * 4 Death * 5 Awards * 6 Memorials * 7 See also * 8 References * 9 Further reading * 10 External links | [edit] Early life Kalpana Chawla was born in Karnal (Haryana) in 1961 to Banarasi Lal Chawla and Sanjyothi. Her interest in flying
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designed to operate in space‚ doing task such as moving heavy objects‚ retrieving them‚ and even repairing stuff on the space station. Canadarm 1‚ Canada’s huge technological advancement‚ was launched in space on the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-2) on November 13‚ 1981. The design and building of the arm‚ also known as the Shuttle Remote Manipulator System short for RMS‚ marked the beginning of NASA and Canada’s space program relationship. The Shuttle’s Canadarm took to space for roughly 30 years of
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Characteristics of a high performance team are evident throughout the movie. Armageddon is an action adventure film in which a meteor the size of Texas is careening towards the earth. NASA scientists discover it after a meteor shower destroys the Space Shuttle Atlantis‚ killing the entire crew. They only have 18 days before the asteroid destroys the earth. NASA devises a plan to insert a nuclear bomb 800 feet inside the asteroid‚ when detonated‚ will split the asteroid into two pieces that will safely
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-R.G.INGERSOLL Kalpana Chawla ‚ the child of imagination has gone to the space eternally to explore if death is a door that leads to light. With a heavy heart our nation salutes this light hearted soul who thought that the universe was her home. This daughter of universe has disappeared in the space on a space mission to bring the benefits of science to humanity at large DREAM OF MILKYWAY: Kalpana Chawla’s strong desire was to travel
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she has two children. As a pioneer of spacecraft technology‚ she patented an optical system to detect defects in a repeating pattern. At the NASA Ames Research Center‚ she led a research group working primarily on optical systems for automated space exploration. As a doctoral student at Stanford‚ and later as a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories and NASA Ames Research Center‚ Ochoa investigated optical system for performing information processing. Ochoa is a co-inventor on three patents
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| Kalpana Chawla ’Kalpana Chawla’ ( July 1 ‚ 1961 - February 1 ‚ 2003 ) was an Indian-American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist of STS-107 ( Columbia ) who was killed when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere . Early Life Chawla was born in Karnal ‚ Haryana ‚ India . Her interest in flight was inspired by J. R. D. Tata ‚ India’s first pilot. Education Chawla studied aeronautical engineering at the Punjab Engineering College in 1982 where she earned
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This paper about Columbia’s Final Mission Case. Putting yourself in the shoes of the managers or engineers in the case (Ron Dittemore‚ Linda Ham‚ Don McCormack‚ Rodney Rocha‚ Pamela Madera‚ Calvin Schomburg)‚ consider the following questions? • What prior assumptions and beliefs shaped the way that you thought and behaved during the Columbia mission? • What pressures affected your behavior? Where did these pressures originate? • In what ways did the culture impact your actions? • If you
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Pacific Ocean‚ near Samoa (3). The Apollo crew may have not been able to complete their original mission‚ but when they were faced with a serious problem the crew proved that they could handle it. The near disaster reminded everyone of the peril of space travel. They were successful in the sense that NASA was able to work through this effectively and save the lives of the three men that were brave enough to go on the mission
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Against Space Program Funding Opening Statement: The government uses approximately 17.6 billion dollars of the taxpayers money to fund NASA every year. We shouldn’t be funding NASA that money when our economy is the worst it’s been since the Great Depression; we need to focus and spend our money on the problems here on Earth. NASA hasn’t done anything significant in space in years. And it’s incredibly risky and dangerous going up there. Arguments: 1) Our economy is the worst it’s been since
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In my ethics & stakeholder management class last semester‚ we discussed the Columbia space shuttle disaster and the mistakes that led up to it. The day before the launch‚ there were unusually cold weather conditions‚ which called for concern among NASA and the associated engineers. A very large conference call took place between the major engineers and executives on the project to discuss what to do. People were calling in from all over the world. There was a lot of panic‚ so many people were
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