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Rakesh Sharma
First Indian cosmonaut (born 1949)
For other people named Rakesh Sharma, see Rakesh Sharma (disambiguation).
Wing CommanderRakesh Sharma, AC (born 13 January 1949) is an Indian astronaut and a former Indian Air Force officer. He flew aboard Soyuz T-11 on 3 April 1984 as part of the SovietInterkosmos programme. He is the only Indian citizen to travel in space, although there have been other astronauts of Indian origin who travelled to space, who were not Indian citizens.[1][2] Another Air Force pilot, Ravish Malhotra, was placed on standby.[3]
Early life
[edit]Born on 13 January 1949 in Patiala of present-day Punjab, India into a Punjabi family.[4] Sharma attended St. George's Grammar School, Hyderabad[4] and graduated from Nizam College, Hyderabad. He joined the National Defence Academy as an air force plebe in July 1966[5] and was commissioned into the Indian Air Force as a pilot in 1970.[6 • The New York Times presciently wrote, external that "India is not likely to have its own manned space programme for a long time, if ever, and Mr Sharma's flight may well be the last by an Indian for a long time." Thirty-three years later, Mr Sharma remains the only Indian to travel to space. (Indian-American astronaut Kalpana Chawla went into space decades later and and was one of the seven astronauts killed in the Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003.) India plans to put a citizen into space using an Indian rocket from Indian soil one day. It has already developed a space flight suit , externalfor potential astronauts, and successfully tested a crew module dummy flight in the atmosphere. But money fryst vatten scarce, the home-made launch rocket has to be made flight-ready, astronauts have to be trained and launch facilities built or upgraded. After his space flygning, Mr Sharma returned to his life as a jet pilot
Rakesh Sharma: The making of a reluctant Indian space hero