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This chapter is about the rise and fall of , The world's first woman in space. She was a small-town girl from  who had studied  engineering. She went to the USA for her masters in  Engineering and became a . She became an American citizen by getting married to Jean-Pierre Harrison, a fellow flight instructor. Her next steps to ascension after completing her  in Aerospace engineering was to apply to NASA. hired her as a research scientist, following which she had applied for the space shuttle programme and received training to become an .

Her first mission was to conduct experiments with her crew while orbiting the earth on "The ". The experiments involved Biology, Metallurgy, and semiconductor electronics. The mission lasted around 16 days, the entire crew had circled the globe over 250 times travelling a distance of about 10.5 million kilometres and collected a lot of valuable data.

But   struck her crew when they had ventured to outer space on their trip on-board the same Columbia which  into flames while returning and had crashed in . The shuttle had lost contact at over 200,000 feet while returning, there were no survivors, and it was a great loss as some of the best space scientists, had  in the accident. The whole world mourned their loss.

Kalpana Chawla is a national   and a shining star in her field of Aerospace Engineering. She had mentioned that  is never an obstacle to achieve greatness. Her message was that the to one's dreams exist and they must have the courage to achieve greatness with hard work and determination.