Question

(a) Chawla’s first space mission in the space shuttle Columbia was 15 days, 16 hours and 34 minutes long. During this time she went around the earth 252 times, travelling 10.45 million kilometres! The crew included a Japanese and a Ukranian astronaut. The crew performed experiments such as pollinating plants to observe food growth in space, and tests for making stronger metals and faster computer chips – all for a price tag of about $56 million. (i) Name the experiments performed by the astronauts. (ii) Find a word in the passage having the same meaning as - ‘a group of persons working together in a ship or spacecraft’.

Answer 1

Answer:

(i)The crew performed experiments such as pollinating plants to observe food growth in space, and tests for making stronger metals and faster computer chips – all for a price tag of about $56 million.

(ii)crew

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