Kalpana Chawla: Reincarnation-collected by raghu koppar

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Kalpana Chawla-Reincarnation: collected from news papers
Four-year-old girl (Upasana)

who says that her name is Kalpana Chawla and that she died in the skies. Four years ago is drawing huge crowds in a village in Uttar Pradesh.
The news spread quickly in the area after she spoke to some villagers here. "I am Kalpana Chawla," says Upasana, who fears the sight an aircraft. She has been telling her illiterate parents that she died in a "crash" up in the skies.
Residents of Nar Mohammadpur village, about 35 km from here, where little Upasana is visiting her relatives, think she might be the reincarnation of the India born astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who died when US space shuttle Columbia crashed four years ago.
."Upasana has been telling us ever since she started speaking that her name was Kalpana Chawla and that her father's name was Banarsi Das Chawla but we could not figure out anything as we had never heard of Kalpana," Upasana's father Raj Kumar told reporters.
Raj Kumar is a resident of Pata village of Etawah district where he works as a labourer. "Yet Upasana's proclamation led us all to believe that she was actually talking about her previous birth," he said. "She claims that the spacecraft was hit by a huge ball of ice that sent it crashing and ended her life." About Dr.Kalpana Chawla- great Indian: Kalpana Chawla joined the NASA astronaut corps in March 1995 and was selected for her first flight in 1996. Her first space mission began on November 19, 1997 as part of the six astronaut crew that flew the Space Shuttle Columbia flight STS-87. Chawla was the first Indian-born woman and the second person of Indian origin to fly in space, following cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma who flew in 1984 in a Soviet spacecraft. It must be noted that while Rakesh Sharma represented India, Chawla was an American astronaut who represented the United States. Sharma and Chawla never met despite their common interests. On her first mission Chawla travelled over 6.5 million miles in 252 orbits of the earth, logging more than 375 hours in space. During STS-87, she was responsible for deploying the Spartan Satellite which malfunctioned, necessitating a spacewalk by Winston Scott and Takao Doi to capture the satellite. A five-month NASA investigation identified errors in software interfaces and flight crew and ground control procedures. Chawla was fully exonerated and significant changes to procedures and software resulted from the final report. After the completion of STS-87 post-flight activities, Chawla was assigned to technical positions in the astronaut office, her performance in which was recognized with a special award from her peers. In 2000 she was selected for her second flight as part of the crew of STS-107. This mission was repeatedly delayed due to scheduling conflicts and technical problems such as the July 2002 discovery of cracks in the shuttle engine flow liners. On January 16, 2003 Chawla finally returned to space aboard Columbia on the ill-fated STS-107 mission. Chawla's responsibilities included the SPACEHAB/FREESTAR microgravity experiments, for which the crew conducted nearly 80 experiments studying earth and space science, advanced technology development, and astronaut health and safety. Chawla's last visit to India was during the 1991 - 1992 new year holiday when she and her husband spent time with her family. For various reasons, Chawla was never able to follow up on invitations to visit India after she became an astronaut.

Published: July 10, 2007

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0 Ratings Friday, July 13, 2007
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Kunal

its theft!

Either you have STOLEN the article from TOI, or TOI has stolen it from you, as the two articles are IDENTICAL - word by word! But, there are a few evidences which prove that YOU are the thieves!
0 Ratings Friday, July 13, 2007
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Kunal

the TOI link

which has the SAME article.... http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2184284.cms
0 Ratings Saturday, July 14, 2007
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mahadev

No its not theft

Mr. Kunal if the author says that he has written- it will be a theft. read the title- they have used the word collected by, so it's not a theft.
0 Ratings Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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ramananda

Its not theft- read it

Somebody wrote it as theft, nowadays people don't have patience to read carefully, se the sub heading, mentioned-collected from news paper. So when you coment on others you should be knowing everything