Word: kalpana
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...were adventurers long before they became astronauts. Before Kalpana Chawla was born, her mother had been hoping for a son. "But out came Kalpana," her mother told the Week magazine in India, "who has achieved more than a boy could." Kalpana decided she wanted to be a space engineer by the time she was 14 and was the only woman to study aeronautics at Punjab Engineering College. Still, the idea of going to America was a shock to the members of her traditional family, and they agreed only on the grounds that her brother Sanjay would come with...
...WITHDRAWN. LAKSHMI PANDIT, 22, Miss India-World 2004, from the Miss World beauty pageant, after controversy over her marital status; in Bombay. Pandit said she once claimed to be married to a fellow model to rent an apartment. In 1989 Pandit's sister Kalpana withdrew from the Miss World contest when it was discovered that she was an American citizen...
...economy seems to be turning around. Companies are taking a cautious approach in hiring. I think this is the right thing to do. We do not want another economy boom followed by a big slide. However, Americans might not see a significant growth in jobs due to outsourcing. Kalpana Mittal Sturbridge, Mass...
...videotape, which runs from 8:35 to 8:48 a.m. E.T.--ending about 11 min. before the ship was destroyed--shows the astronauts just where they ought to have been that late in the mission, with commander Rick Husband, pilot William McCool and crew members Laurel Clark and Kalpana Chawla strapped into their seats on the main flight deck. Crewmates Ilan Ramon, David Brown and Michael Anderson were out of view, similarly belted into place on the middeck below. When the tape begins, Chawla and Clark are finishing their suiting up, while Husband and McCool are busy flying the ship...
DIED. Astronauts MICHAEL ANDERSON, 43, DAVID BROWN, 46, KALPANA CHAWLA, 41, LAUREL CLARK, 41, RICK HUSBAND, 45, WILLIAM MCCOOL, 41, and ILAN RAMON, 48--the first Israeli in space; when the space shuttle Columbia broke up as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere; over Texas. (See story page...