Rakesh Sharma

Rakesh Sharma is an Indian cosmonaut and a former Indian Air Force officer. He flew aboard Soyuz T-11 on 3 April 1984 as part of the Soviet Interkosmos programme. He is the first Indian citizen to travel in space, although there have been other astronauts of Indian origin who travelled to space, who were not Indian citizens. Another Air Force pilot, Ravish Malhotra, was placed on standby.

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1949  Wikimedia, Wikidata
SQUADRON LEADER RAKESH SHARMA; Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma
aircraft pilot, military personnel, Research Cosmonaut, astronaut, 

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  Soyuz T-10 ⓘ
  crewed flight of the Soyuz programme

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  Soyuz T-11 ⓘ
  1984 space expedition

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  Salyut 7 ⓘ
  space station launched on 19 April 1982

India, 

Frameless

Rakesh Sharma (cropped)

Rakesh sharma

Rakesh Sharma (cropped)

Rakesh sharma

Soyuz T-11 prime crew (crop)

Soyuz T-11 primary and backup crew.

Soyuz T-11 prime crew (crop)

Vrishasen Dabholkar with Rakesh Sharma

Vrishasen Dabholkar with Rakesh Sharma

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
class	orbit		Soyuz T-10	Gennadi Strekalov, Leonid Kizim, Oleg Atkov, Rakesh Sharma, Vladimir Solovyov, Yury Vasilyevich Malyshev, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	orbit		Soyuz T-11	Gennadi Strekalov, Leonid Kizim, Oleg Atkov, Rakesh Sharma, Vladimir Solovyov, Yury Vasilyevich Malyshev, human spaceflight,	Wikidata
class	space object		Salyut 7	Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, Anatoly Berezovoy, Georgy Grechko, Oleg Atkov, Rakesh Sharma, Viktor Savinykh, Vladimir Dzhanibekov, space station,	Wikidata
commons	image		Rakesh Sharma (cropped)		Commons
commons	image		Rakesh sharma		Commons
commons	image		Rakesh Sharma (cropped)		Commons
commons	image		Rakesh sharma		Commons
commons	image		Soyuz T-11 prime crew (crop)		Commons
commons	image		Soyuz T-11 primary and backup crew.		Commons
commons	image		Soyuz T-11 prime crew (crop)		Commons
commons	image		Vrishasen Dabholkar with Rakesh Sharma		Commons
commons	image		Vrishasen Dabholkar with Rakesh Sharma		Commons