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Explore India's journey in human spaceflight, from Rakesh Sharma's historic 1984 flight to Shubhanshu Shukla's recent Axiom-4 ...
Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, who created history by becoming the first Indian ever to set foot on the International Space ...
Vantage with Palki Sharma | N18G 41 years after Rakesh Sharma’s historic flight, India has sent another astronaut to space.
Rakesh Sharma was born in Patiala, Punjab, on January 13, 1949. Free Press Journal. e-Paper Get App. ... Raksha Sharma is an Indian astronaut and a former Indian Air Force officer, ...
Shubhanshu Shukla has made history today on June 25 by becoming the second Indian astronaut to go into space, 41 years after Rakesh Sharma first crossed that milestone in 1984. Shubhanshu Shukla is a ...
Ax-4 will be piloted by Group Captain Shukla whose trip comes 41 years after cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian to fly to space aboard a Russian Soyuz in 1984. He spent nearly eight days ...
41 years ago, astronaut Rakesh Sharma, first Indian to go into space, had said "saare jahan se acha Hindustan humara" when former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had asked him how India looks from space.
Shubhanshu Shukla, 39, is currently serving as the mission pilot for the Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4) to the International Space Station (ISS), a landmark collaboration between NASA, SpaceX, and ISRO.
Why Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian in space, rarely thinks about his time there An excerpt from ‘Against the Grain: Lessons from the Outliers’, by Pankaj Mishra. Pankaj Mishra.
The first Indian man to venture into space, former Indian Air Force pilot Rakesh Sharma, today gave his thumbs up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's plan to have a national space mission by 2022.
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 July 7, 2025 e-Paper ...
Former Indian Air Force pilot Rakesh Sharma, who became the first Indian to travel to space in 1984, celebrated his birthday today. To support this incredible feat, several social media users ...