Rakesh Sharma
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| Country: | India |
| selected on | 20th September 1982 |
| Calls: | 1 space flight |
| Begin: | April 3, 1984 |
| Landing: | April 11, 1984 |
| Time in space: | 7 days 21 hours 41 minutes |
| retired on | April 11, 1984 |
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Rakesh Sharma (born January 13, 1949 in Patiala , Punjab ) is a pilot and officer in the Indian Air Force and a former cosmonaut . He was the first Indian in space .
Life
Rakesh Sharma was selected as a spaceman on September 20, 1982 by the Indian Space Research Organization in consultation with the Soviet Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. In 1984 Sharma was a research cosmonaut member of the third guest team of Salyut 7 , to which he flew with the Soyuz T-11 . He returned to Earth on April 11, 1984 with the Soyuz T-10 .
In 1987, Rakesh Sharma left active military service and became a test pilot, then a chief test pilot, in the Nashik Division of Hindustan Aeronautics . In 1992 he went to the branch of Hindustan Aeronautics in Bangalore , where he was again chief test pilot. In 2001 Sharma gave up the job of test pilot.
Sharma is married and has two children.
literature
- Peter Stache: spaceman from A to Z . Military publishing house of the German Democratic Republic, Berlin [East] 1988, ISBN 3-327-00527-3 .
Web links
- spacefacts.de: Short biography
- India Today: Rakesh Sharma: Our First Space Man (English)
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| SURNAME | Sharma, Rakesh |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian cosmonaut , pilot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Patiala , Punjab , India |