Rakesh Sharma
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Rakesh Sharma - A military pilot and a Cosmonaut, Rakesh Sharma joined the Indian Air Force as a pilot in 1970 and was applauded for his skills for flying the MiG-21 during the Bangladesh war in 1971.
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Location
bengaluru
Language
english
Years of Speaking
10+ years
About Rakesh Sharma
A military pilot and a Cosmonaut, Rakesh Sharma joined the Indian Air Force as a pilot in 1970 and was applauded for his skills for flying the MiG-21 during the Bangladesh war in 1971.
In 1982, he was selected as a cosmonaut for a joint Soviet-Indian spaceflight. Two years later after enduring grueling training, which included tasks like being locked up in a room for 72 hours with only one window and no sunlight, no book, not even a clock; he became the first Indian citizen to enter space when he flew aboard the Soviet rocket Soyuz T-11 launched from Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic.
Achievements
Rakesh Sharma created history when he became the first and the only Indian to travel to space in 1984.
He was conferred with the honor of the Hero of the Soviet Union upon his return from space. In 1985, he became the recipient of the Ashok Chakra, India's highest honor for valour in peacetime.
Given the sheer breadth of his incredible achievements, his Bollywood biopic was of course long overdue. In 2018, Shah Rukh Khan announced he will be playing the lead in Sharma's biopic titled Salute.
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