Practice Questions: An Indian-American Women in Space: Kalpana Chawla | Practice Questions with Solutions for Class 6 PDF Download

Q1: Who was Kalpana Chawla?
Ans: Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian woman to go into space.

Q2: Where was Kalpana Chawla born?
Ans: She was born in Karnal, Haryana, India.

Q3: From where did she get her master’s degree?
Ans: United States of America.

Q4: What did she earn in studying aerospace engineering?
Ans: PhD.

Q5: Where did the blast off from the launch pad take place?
Ans: Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Q6: Who was a naturalized US citizen?
Ans: Kalpana Chawla.

Q7: Name the flight instructor who she married.
Ans: Jean-Pierre Harrison.

Q8: What was Kalpana Chawla also certified as?
Ans: Flight instructor.

Q9: Who was also licensed to fly single and multi-engine airplanes?
Ans: Kalpana Chawla.

Q10: After qualifying as a pilot, what did she begin to apply for?
Ans: NASA’s space shuttle program.

Q11: Write the qualifications of Kalpana Chawla.
Ans: Kalpana completed her graduation of Kalpana Chawla Tagore school in aeronautical engineering. Later, for a master degree, she went the United States of America. In aerospace engineering, she also earned her PHD.

Q12: Write the qualifications of Kalpana Chawla.
Ans: Kalpana completed her graduation of Kalpana Chawla Tagore school in aeronautical engineering. Later, for a master degree, she went the United States of America. In aerospace engineering, she also earned her PHD.

Q13: Other than being an astronaut, what was she licensed to?
Ans: Being an astronaut multi-engine land airplanes,  single and multi-engine land airplanes, single-engine seaplanes and gliders. She was also a certified flight instructor later, she was selected for training as an astronaut by NASA.

Q14: What was the name and time taken for her first space mission the space shuttle?
Ans: Kalpana Chawla space mission in the space shuttle was named Columbia. It lasted for 15 days, 16 hours and 34 minutes long and during this time she went around the earth for 252 times, i e travelling 10 45 millions Kilometres.

Q15: How did the town of Kernel feel about the Columbia disaster?
Ans: The town of Kernel spent many sleepiness nights as thousands of people stayed gloved to their television sets for the hope that Kalpana and the other members of crew had somehow survived.

Q16: What was a message sent by her from abroad and for whom?
Ans: She sent a message from aboard, Columbia to the students of her collage in Chandigarh. She said that the paths from dreams to success do exit. May they have the vision to find it, the courage to get into, etc. And lastly, she wished them a great journey.

Q17: Briefly explain Columbia.
Ans: Columbia was Kalpana’s first space mission in the space shuttle and had lifted off on 16th January 2003 from the Kennedy space centre, Florida. They stayed in orbit for almost 16 days and all the seven member crew conflicted 80 experiments before it began its boulevard way that ended in a disaster way. The total cost of this mission was about 56 million dollars about the Columbia disaster that killed all the seven crew members and made everyone shock and disbelief.

Q18: What is mean by a space shuttle?
Ans: A spacecraft that is made for repeated space travel, for example, between earth and a space station is called a space shuttle.

Q19: Kalpana Chawla was a naturalized US citizen. Why?
Ans: Though she was born in Kernel, Haryana, she was a naturalized US citizen because she married to a flight instructor named Jean-Pierre Harrison, who was an American.

Q20: How Kalpana was selected as an astronaut by NASA?
Ans: After she was qualified as a pilot, she began to apply for NASA shuttle program. Later she was first hired as a research scientist at NASA eventually, in 1994. She joined for training as an astronaut in NASA.