Rakesh Sharma

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Rakesh Sharma
Rakesh Sharma
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
Space flights

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 .

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