Sunita in Space Class 5 EVS Chapter Notes

The chapter “Sunita in Space” is Chapter 19 from Let’s Look Around and Learn Environmental Studies for students of Class 5th of JKBOSE and Chapter 11 from Looking Around EVS for students of NCERT. This post is precisely about Sunita in Space Class 5 EVS Chapter Notes. In my last post, you read about Sunita in Space Class 5 EVS Question Answers. Let’s get started with today’s post:

Sunita in Space Class 5 EVS Chapter Notes

Introduction

The chapter Sunita in Space is about the journey of Sunita Williams in space. Sunita Williams visited India to meet children to complete the wish of Kalpana Chawla another astronaut who died during a space mission. She shared her experiences about space with children.

Straight from the Heart

The chapter begins with a conversation between two children Uzaira and Shahmir. They were playing with a globe and also talking to each other. Uzaira asked Shahmir if he know that Sunita Williams was visiting their school the next day. The conversation between them continued and they asked a few questions about space and earth from each other.

Talking with Sunita 

When Sunita Williams came to India, thousands of children like Uzaira and Shahmir got a chance to meet her. Sunita said that her friend Kalpana Chawla wanted to come to India and meet children. She came to India to fulfil Kalpana’s dream.

Sunita’s experiences of living in space!

• We could not sit in one place. We kept floating in the spaceship from one end to another. 
• Water too doesn’t stay in one place. It floats around as blobs. To wash our faces or hands we had to catch these blobs and wet paper with them.
• We ate very differently there. The real fun was when all of us would float into the dining area of the spaceship and catch the floating food packets.
• In space, there was no need to use a comb. My hair kept standing all the time.
• Not being able to walk, we had to get used to floating around. We had to learn to do simple things differently. To stay in one place, we had to strap ourselves there. Papers also had to be stuck to the wall of the spaceship. It was a lot of fun living in space but also tricky.

Isn’t it amazing?

When we throw something up on the earth, it comes down due to the gravity of the earth. When we throw a ball up in the air, it falls back. We can catch it. On the earth, we don’t keep floating around. When we fill a glass or bucket with water, it stays there. It doesn’t float around in blobs as Sunita Williams says. It is something special about the earth that makes this happen! The earth pulls everything towards itself.

It is not like this in space. Things keep floating in space due to the absence of gravity. Even a tiny piece of paper remains floating Sunita Williams went 360 kilometres away from the earth, in the spaceship.

Where are the lines, really! 

Sunita describes her view of the earth from the spaceship: “The earth looks so beautiful and amazing. We could watch it for hours, from the window of the spaceship. We could see the curved shape of the earth.” Look at this photograph of the earth, taken from a spaceship.

From such photographs today we know what the earth looks like. But thousands of years ago, people could only imagine what the earth looked like. Scientists tried hard to find out – how big is the earth, and how does it go around?

When Sunita saw the earth from space she found the earth very beautiful. Many thoughts came to her mind. As she describes it, “From so far away, one can only make out the land and the sea. One cannot see the different countries. The division into countries has been done by us. All the lines on the maps are made by us, they are in our minds. I wish we all think about this. Where are the lines, really?”

Do Your Best and Things Will Work Out! 

When Sunita was five years old she saw pictures of Neil Armstrong landing on the moon. In 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. Like any other child, Sunita was also fascinated.

Sunita says that when she was a young girl, she loved sports, especially swimming. She was never too interested in her studies. After high school, Sunita wanted to become a diver. But she could not get into that course. Instead, she became a helicopter pilot. One day she found out that if she studied and trained for it, she could join the Space Mission. And that is what she did! In 2007 Sunita Williams set a new record for the longest space flight by a woman.

Sunita often gives her own example to tell children, “If you want something, but you get something else, do not give up. Do your best, and things will work out!”

When Sunita was asked by a child what would she like to do in the future, she answered,” want to become a school teacher!” So that she could make children understand how science and maths are closely linked to our lives.

Conclusion Points from Chapter

• Earth is like a globe.
• The sky, sun, stars and moon all are in space.
• Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian woman to went into space.
• Sunita Williams remained in space for 6 months.
• One cannot stand or sit in a spaceship. Astronauts keep floating in the spaceship due to the absence of gravity.
• Everything looks very beautiful from the space.
• Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the moon in 1969.
• Sunita Williams wanted to become a diver but she became a helicopter pilot.

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