Date:01/01/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/01/01/stories/2009010156970100.htm

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Chawla had just 41 seconds to react

AFP

Houston: India-born Kalpana Chawla and six other astronauts of the shuttle Columbia had just 41 seconds to react before they died in one of the worst U.S. space disasters in 2003.