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sdagenham t1_ixm1646 wrote
Reply to comment by CrAzY_cOdeR4 in TIL This is Rakesh Sharma. Alive and well, He was the first Indian to go to space in 1984, making India the 14th nation in the world to send a man to Outer Space. by CrAzY_cOdeR4
It was a race between countries that actually developed the technology (United States and Soviet Union). India contributed nothing to the tech that actually got Rakesh Sharma into space since he flew on a Soviet rocket.
sdagenham t1_ixm0nwl wrote
Reply to TIL This is Rakesh Sharma. Alive and well, He was the first Indian to go to space in 1984, making India the 14th nation in the world to send a man to Outer Space. by CrAzY_cOdeR4
> 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.
India didn't send anyone into space. Soviet Union did.
sdagenham t1_ixm00il wrote
Reply to comment by CrAzY_cOdeR4 in TIL This is Rakesh Sharma. Alive and well, He was the first Indian to go to space in 1984, making India the 14th nation in the world to send a man to Outer Space. by CrAzY_cOdeR4
Sure. Bolivia, Luxemburg, Ghana... All the "Independent nations" were trying to develop their "space agencies" that time.
sdagenham t1_ivacdub wrote
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sdagenham t1_ixm1s55 wrote
Reply to comment by CrAzY_cOdeR4 in TIL This is Rakesh Sharma. Alive and well, He was the first Indian to go to space in 1984, making India the 14th nation in the world to send a man to Outer Space. by CrAzY_cOdeR4
The post is about the first Indian for whom the Indian government bought a ticket on a Soviet rocket.