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As a Wing Commander and astronaut, he embarked on a groundbreaking mission that lasted seven days, 21 hours, and 40 minutes, elevating India's pride to new heights.

Rakesh Sharma is India's first astronaut, a space exploration pioneer, and a national hero.

On November 21, 1963, the launch of a US-origin Nike Apache sounding rocket from Thumba, Thiruvananthapuram, in southern India marked the beginning of the Indian Space programme. Sixty years later, in 2023, the Indian and American governments are collaborating on human spaceflight and working towards sending an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2024.

Every child knew his name in East Germany, many wanted to be just like him. Schools and streets were named after this national hero. In the Socialist Eastern Bloc dictatorship of the GDR, in which one could only dream of traveling far away, he was by far the most widely traveled citizen. Today, the first German in space has a little bit fallen into oblivion. Born in 1937 before World War II and raised as a citizen of the German Democratic Republic, the distinguished fighter pilot and Major General of the People's Army was chosen to participate in the Soviet Interkosmos program and to fly ...