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Date of Birth |
Born om |
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Childhood / Family |
Married with
two children |
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Occupation |
Test Piolot |
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Military Service / Civilian |
Indian Air
Force |
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Contribution to Space Travel |
First Indian to fly into space. |
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Space Missions |
Sharma was a
Research Cosmonaut on the Soyuz T-11 |
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Interesting Fact(s) |
He says that the worst moment of his trip was when the
Soyuz T-11, a single-use spaceship in which the procedure for landing was
different, caught fire. |
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Status |
Retired as a
Cosmonaut Chief-Testpilot with |
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Images |
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Links |
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/people/astronauts/sharma.html http://www.geocities.com/siafdu/ac2.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakesh_Sharma http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/international/english/sharma_rakesh.htm |
