BE KIND TO ALL

Project Focus :Animal Rights 
Target point of the Project : Everything alive be it an animal, bird, insect or plant needs to be treated with kindness. Every living being has the right to obtain food and shelter and to protect their young ones. They deserve kindness from human beings. We must not be 
cruel to these creatures because they cannot express their pain.

 Key Objectives 
 Every effort should be made by us to stop cruelty against living beings.
 Students will learn to treat the plants and animals more kindly and carefully. 
 Students will be taught not to take very young animals and birds such as puppies, kittens, parrots and rabbits from their mothers. They need their mothers too like humans do. 
 Students will learn how to take care of their pets. 




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  Students will teach others how to take care of plants and animals.
  Students will learn to report animal rights violation case to the concerned authorities. 
 Students can be urged to adopt lost and street animals after vaccination and will take care of them. 
I don't believe that children are born with 
empathy. It is something they learn by seeing it 
modeled by others.

 No creature should be ill-treated by human beings. 

It was 13 tragic years ago, that NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas wth it's 7 member crew while re-entering the earth's atmosphere. Among those who died was India's pride Kalpana Chawla who is still considered a shining beacon of hope for all Indian girls.

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Here are some facts about the amazing Kalpana:

1. She was originally named MontoNASA 2. She proved that extra-curricular activities make us awesomeTwitter 3. She held many positions in NASA even before becoming an astronautTwitter 4. Her love for flying led to her career in SpaceNASA 5. She became a US citizen and got a PhD before trying to reach spacewikimedia 6. After her untimely demise, many honours were bestowed upon herNASA 7. She is the first and only Indian woman to go to spacewomanpilot.com

Though we are sure that she would have done great even if she had used her given name of Monto, it's only right that she chose 'Kalpana' as a name for herself; which meant imagination. She kept using Monto as her nickname.

Though Kalpana was not a perennial topper, she was always among the top five students in her class in academics. But she liked poetry, dancing, cycling and running and was invariably first in all the races.

She first moved to US in 1982 after completing engineering in India. There she studied aerospace engineering and joined NASA later. She served in various roles including as the Vice President of Overset Methods, Inc at NASA  Research Centre.

Kalpana was a certified commercial pilot with license to fly seaplanes and multi-engine air-planes. She also became a certificated Flight instructor and married an American aviation author Jean-Pierre Harrison in 1983. 

Only after becoming a US citizen in 1991, did she apply for and became a member of NASA Astronaut Corps. Six years later, she took her first flight into space.

She has an asteroid and a satellite named after her. A hill in the Columbia Hills on Mars is named after her as Chawla Hill. This is apart from the dorm rooms, hallways, medals and scholarships named after her at all colleges and universities where she studied during her years as a student. She was also awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, NASA Space Flight Medal and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal posthumously.

Sunita Williams who is the second women of Indian decent to go to space is not Indian. Kalpana was the 33rd woman to go to space. She spent more that 31 days in space on her two missions and it was during the end phase of her second mission that she met her demise. She will forever be an icon for Indians.

In the time and age when Kalpana was born, she could easily been lost amidst numerous other Mantos in the region. It was only her determination and passion to pursue her dreams that made her the Kalpana we love, adore and respect.

Salute!

We leave you with her words, shortly after her first launch

“When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.”

On February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia began its decent back to earth. As the shuttle raced over the Pacific towards the United States, its crew put on their suits, preparing themselves for a routine landing. But the shuttle broke apart while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana and killed all seven crew members Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool, Michael P. Anderson, Ilan Ramon, Kalpana Chawla, David M. Brown, and  Laurel Blair Salton Clark on board.

And, this video will show you their last moments alive just before the crash:

So, what exactly happened that caused the disaster:

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Superheated atmospheric gases blasted inside the shuttle’s structure causing maximum damage to the shuttle on reentry.When alarms went off inside the cockpit, the crew did their best to maintain control.

The crew cabin lost pressure which would have caused the astronauts to black out. If not that, then the violent shaking of the cabin would have killed them.

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The shuttle started to disintegrate and parts like wings started to fall off. But the crew didn’t know this. Then the cabin split away from the rest of the shuttle and started tumbling on end.

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Crew even tried to reset the shuttle’s autopilot system.

Astronauts are also thought to have been subjected to traumatic injuries because their helmets failed to protect them.

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The shuttles parachute landing system didn’t work because astronauts have to be conscious to be able to operate it manually.

Even if all this had worked, the astronauts couldn’t have survived the harsh conditions of the upper atmosphere.

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