Kalpana Chawla: Astronaut
Who, When, Wow!
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🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Meet Kalpana Chawla, the first Indian-born woman to fly in space. Join Rebecca Sheir on a journey from her journey to studying engineering in India to reaching new heights as a NASA astronaut. Discover more about her courageous story and head to whowhenwow.com for activities based on this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | We humans have been walking the earth a long time, over a million years. |
| 0:07.1 | But our adventures beyond the earth have really only just begun. |
| 0:11.9 | Presenting humans in space! |
| 0:16.9 | The human exploration of outer space goes back just 60 some years. |
| 0:21.9 | Russian news reports that on April 12, 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made his first |
| 0:28.6 | orbit around the planet Earth, making him the first human in space. |
| 0:35.8 | I was about to say that. |
| 0:38.4 | Please do not interrupt. |
| 0:40.5 | The space race was on, and the United States hurried to catch up. |
| 0:45.0 | Now that the United States has formed NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, |
| 0:51.3 | President John F. Kennedy is challenging the organization to send a human to the moon before 1970. |
| 0:58.2 | We choose to go to the moon in this decade and... |
| 1:01.2 | What a human in space! |
| 1:04.7 | Pardon me, I'm trying to make a legendary speech here. |
| 1:08.3 | The whole we choose to go to the moon and other things, not because they are easy, but because they're a hard thing. |
| 1:13.8 | Anyway, you get it. Everyone gets it. |
| 1:16.3 | NASA accepted Kennedy's challenge, and in 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. |
| 1:25.5 | That's one small step from... |
| 1:27.5 | For a human in space! |
| 1:32.6 | Otis, is this fellow really just interrupt my most filmous wine ever? |
| 1:37.8 | About one small step for a man, one silent loop for mankind? |
| 1:42.9 | Ah, forget this. I'm going for a moonwalk. |
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