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Marking the 40th anniversary of the historic spaceflight of the first Indian cosmonaut, Rakesh Sharma, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz T-11, Russian Deputy Chief of the Mission in Delhi, Roman Babushkin, has hailed India’s remarkable achievements in space exploration. He labelled India as a “space superpower” owing to its successful endeavours in space, notably the recent Chandrayaan 3 mission.
Rakesh Sharma, Indian military pilot and cosmonaut, the first Indian citizen in space. In 1970 Sharma joined the Indian Air Force as a pilot. He flew 21 combat missions in a MiG-21 in the Bangladesh war of 1971. In 1982 he was selected as a cosmonaut for a joint Soviet-Indian spaceflight. On April