Friday, April 3, 2009

25th Anniversary of First Indian in Space - Rakesh Sharma

Planetary Society, India welcomes you all to this site. This site commemorates the 25th Anniversary of launch of first indian to space on 3rd April,1984.



About the launch in brief : In a historic mission in year 1984 as part of a joint space program between the Indian Space Research Organisation and the Soviet Intercosmos space program Rakesh Sharma (35 years at that time) along with two other Soviet cosmonauts aboard Soyuz T-11 were launched into space where they spent eight days in Salyut 7 space station.

Mission Insignia



Look at the left side (chest) of Rakesh Sharma you will find the Mission patch with above insignia.

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