Question

Who was the first Indian to go space

Answer 1

Dear student,

It was Rakesh Sharma.
Rakesh Sharma was born on Jan. 13, 1949 in Patiala, Punjab state, India.
He was an Indian military pilot and cosmonaut. The first Indian citizen in space.
In 1970 Sharma joined the Indian Air Force as a pilot. He flew 21 combat missions in a MiG-21 in the Bangladesh war of 1971.
On April 3, 1984, he flew on board Soyuz T-11 with two Soviet cosmonauts, commander Yury Malyshev and flight engineer Gennady Strekalov, to the space station Salyut 7.

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