She perished along with six other astronauts in one of the worst space disasters ever, 18 years ago. But not before she made history and inspired millions as the first Indian-born woman to go to space.
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00:00Forget about space, I didn't even know if my folks were going to let me go to the engineering college.
00:30I didn't even know if my folks were going to let me go to the engineering college.
01:00There was this small town girl in Karnal who dreamt of going into space.
01:12She chased her dream. It wasn't available in the country.
01:16She went halfway around the world and went after her dream and grabbed it.
02:30It's a dome of a dark sky and stars everywhere and the earth.
02:39A lot of time covered with thunderstorms here and there with some small sprays of lightning.
02:48And every once in a while city lights speak to the clouds.
02:52And it is very much like a storybook.
03:00You simply do not have time to delve on yesterdays because you have to finish the whole mission properly.
03:27So I think once we get back to work we will have a lot of time to talk about this and that's when I really plan to do that.
04:27Music
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