Gazette Notification: No.57-Pres/85 dated 7th May 1985
The citation for the Ashoka Chakra reads as follows: India also conferred its highest peacetime gallantry award, the Ashoka Chakra, on him and the two Soviet members of his mission, Malyshev and Strekalov. He remains to date the only Indian to have been conferred this honour. Sharma was conferred the honour of the Hero of the Soviet Union upon his return from space.
Sharma retired as a wing commander and later joined Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in 1987, serving as the chief test pilot in the HAL Nashik Division until 1992, before moving on to Bangalore to work as HAL's chief test pilot. With Sharma's voyage aboard Soyuz T-11, India became the 14th nation to send a man to outer space. This is the title of a patriotic poem by Iqbal that had been written when India was under British colonial rule, that continues to be popular today. When Indira Gandhi asked Sharma how India looked from outer space, he replied, " Sare Jahan Se Accha" (the best in the world). The crew held a joint television news conference with officials in Moscow and then Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. His work was mainly in the fields of bio-medicine and remote sensing. Sharma spent 7 days, 21 hours, and 40 minutes aboard the Salyut 7 during which his team conducted scientific and technical studies which included forty-three experimental sessions. The Soyuz T-11 spacecraft carrying cosmonauts including Sharma docked and transferred the three member Soviet-Indian international crew, consisting of the ship's commander, Yury Malyshev, and flight engineer, Gennadi Strekalov, to the Salyut 7 Orbital Station. In 1984, Sharma became the first Indian citizen to enter space when he flew aboard the Soviet rocket Soyuz T-11 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic on 3 April 1984. Astronaut Ĭosmonaut Rakesh Sharma's suit at Nehru Planetarium He was selected on 20 September 1982 to become a cosmonaut and go into space as part of a joint programme between the Indian Air Force and the Soviet Interkosmos space programme. Career IAF career Īn alumnus of the 35th National Defence Academy, Sharma joined the Indian Air Force as a test pilot in 1970 and progressed through numerous levels where in 1984 he was promoted to the rank of squadron leader. He joined the National Defence Academy as an air force plebe in July 1966 and was commissioned into the Indian Air Force as a pilot in 1970. George's Grammar School, Hyderabad and graduated from Nizam College, Hyderabad. We know this through several Netflix documentaries. As proof, here are a few more of the best space documentaries right now on the streaming service.Born on 13 January 1949 in Patiala of present-day Punjab, India. It's a stepping stone to greater achievements in science, technology, and safety. Updated on June 15th, 2020 by Richard Keller: Space is not the final frontier. RELATED: Sci-Fi: 10 Best Outer Space Survival Films Below are the ten best space-centric docs that you can watch right now on the service. As climate change becomes a harsher reality and the likelihood of a Star Trek-style future gets further and further from our grasp, streaming giant Netflix is here to remind us that all is not lost and there’s plenty to discover in their diverse selection of programming. From the pie in the sky notion of colonizing Mars to the mysteries of what lies beyond our solar system and the frightening phenomena of black holes, space is both a captivating and mind-expanding subject. Though the majority of us will likely never get to leave our home planet, space travel has always been one of humanity’s great dreams, and it continues to be so.
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