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2She set her mind on traveling to Europe for a better life and hadensured that lying on her backprovided the funds for herdreams. After being duped twiceby spurious travel agents, shesettled for Ghana. The family only ever heard from her duringChristmas.Ogochukwu, the second born andsecond daughter was theprettiest. At a young age, sheeasily got the attention of boys and men in the hood. After hersecondary school, it was onlyright she latched on to awealthy guy, whose mainbusiness was unknown but droveseveral big and expensive cars and traveled abroad alot. Ogo’s‘husband’ had been very niceto their family until heimpregnated Ogo and asked herto move in with him, promising to‘close road’ after Ogo had delivered the baby. The party heproposed, was supposed to betwo-in-one… Marriage andnaming ceremony. Ogo was nowheavy with her second child andthere was still no ‘closing road’ in sight. She only evershowed up to cry to theirmother that her husband beatsand blames her for thedownturn of his business.
The Crew Module Atmospheric Re-entry Experiment which was test-flown by the ISRO two years ago.—PHOTO: THULASI KAKKAT It will test how fast and effectively the crew module of an intended space mission could punch out from a spacecraft The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is gearing up to conduct a critical ‘crew bailout test’ to see how fast and effectively the crew module of an intended space mission could punch out from the spacecraft safely in the event of an emergency. The test, known as Pad Abort, will be held at the launch pad of Sriharikota High Altitude Range (SHAR) in a month or two, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) Director K. Sivan told The Hindu in an interaction on the sidelines of the ongoing expo in connection with the World Space Week celebrations at Ernakulathappan ground here. The test forms part of a gamut of critical technologies being developed by the space agency as it awaits the nod from the government for the ambitious ‘human in sp...
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