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Mar 14, 2017 · Did you meet God? This was a question Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to travel into space, often faced from admirers at home after he returned to Earth in 1984. "I would say, no, I hadn't...
Mar 21, 2017 · Did you meet God? This was a question Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian to travel into space, often faced from admirers at home after he returned to Earth in 1984. “I would say, no, I...
Apr 3, 2024 · Sharma conducted investigations on the impact of zero gravity on his heart. Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to go into space as he launched aboard the Soyuz T-11 on April 3, 1984. Four decades later, his legend still stands.
Apr 2, 2021 · After returning from the first Indian to go to space, Rakesh Sharma, people in India often asked if he met God in space. He used to reply to this, “No, I did not find God there.” Rakesh Sharma went on a space trip in 1984.
Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, AC (born 13 January 1949) is an Indian astronaut and a former Indian Air Force officer. He flew aboard Soyuz T-11 on 3 April 1984 as part of the Soviet Interkosmos programme.
Nov 11, 2016 · Wing commander Rakesh Sharma takes a walk down memory lane to the day he blasted off to space, becoming the first Indian to do so. Pankaja Srinivasan reports
Aug 16, 2016 · Here he is, in Zvezdniy Gorodok, Russia, the Star City complex where cosmonauts all the way down from Yuri Gagarin – who went up when he was 27, claimed to see no God and returned to celebrity ...
Mar 28, 2017 · When former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi asked Rakesh Sharma how India looked from outer space, he said 'Saare Jahan Se Achcha' in response.
Apr 12, 2022 · Rakesh Sharma, who was born on January 13, 1949 in Patiala, joined the Indian Air Force as a pilot in 1970. He reportedly conducted at least 21 combat sorties in a MiG-21 during the 1971 Bangladesh conflict, and in 1982 he was chosen as a cosmonaut for a combined Soviet-Indian spaceflight.
Aug 4, 2017 · Thirty-three years after he spent eight days in space, Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, 69, draws similar adulation from generations of Indians who have memories of watching him inside that...
