![]() ![]() Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian to journey to space. It is today in 1984 that India launched it’s first space mission with the help of Soviet Intercosmos space program. Sq Ldr Rakesh Sharma: Saare Jahan Se Acha □□ Smt Indira Gandhi : How does India look from there? The Soviet-Indian crew had a joint television news conference with Moscow officials and then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. When asked, how India looked from outer space, Sharma replied, Sare Jahan Se Achcha. The mission conducted scientific and technical studies, including 43 experimental sessions, but he was tasked with bio-medicine and remote-sensing. He spent 7 days, 21 hours and 40 minutes aboard the Salyut 7 space station. It docked and transferred the three-member Soviet-Indian international crew which included the spaceship commander Yury Malyshev and flight engineer Gennadi Strekalov, to the Salyut 7 Orbital Station. The Soyuz T-11 rocket was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic on 3 April 1984. Rakesh Sharma entered space aboard the Soviet rocket Soyuz T-11, thereby becoming the first Indian to go to space. Wing Commander Ravish Malhotra was on standby. He underwent rigorous training for two years at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Moscow and was even locked inside a closed room at an IAF facility in Bangalore for 72 hours to detect if he suffered from claustrophobia. On 20 September 1982, he was chosen to become a cosmonaut as part of a joint initiative between India and the Soviet Union. He flew 21 combat missions in a MiG-21 fighter jet during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. Rakesh Sharma was commissioned into the Indian Air Force as a pilot in 1970. George's Grammar School, Hyderabad, Nizam College Hyderabad, and 35th National Defence Academy. ![]() Rakesh Sharma was born on 13 January 1949 in Patiala, India (present-day Punjab, India). Rakesh Sharma Biography: Birth, Age, and Education With Sharma's space voyage, India became the 14th nation in the world to send a man to outer space. Rakesh Sharma Biography: Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma was the first Indian and 138th person to travel to space. ![]()
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