Biodata Rakesh Sharma (Astronaut) Agama Istri, Anak, Biografi Profil Lengkap
Biodata Rakesh Sharma (Astronaut) Agama Istri, Anak, Biografi Profil Lengkap
| Nama Lengkap | Rakesh Sharma |
| Nama Panggilan | Tidak Diketahui |
| Pekerjaan | Former Indian Air Force Pilot, Astronaut |
| Ukuran Bentuk Badan Profil Lengkap | |
| Tinggi Badan | dalam centimeter - 168 cm dalam meter - 1.68 m dalam Feet Inci - 5’ 6” |
| Berat Badan | dalam Kilogram - 69 kg dalam Pound - 153 lbs |
| Warna Mata | Light Brown |
| Warna Rambut | White |
| Kehidupan Pribadi | |
| Tanggal Lahir | 13 January 1949 |
| Tempat Lahir | Patiala, Punjab, India |
| Umur (di Tahun 2017) | 68 Years |
| Bintang Zodiak | Capricorn |
| Kebangsaan | Indian |
| Alamat Tempat Tinggal | Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh |
| Pendidikan | St. Georges Grammar School, Hyderabad |
| Perguruan Tinggi / Universitas | Nizam College, Hyderabad |
| Kualifikasi Pendidikans | Tidak Diketahui |
| Keluarga | Ayah - Devendranath Sharma Ibu - Tripata Sharma Saudara Laki laki - Tidak Diketahui Saudara Perempuan - Tidak Diketahui |
| Agama | Hinduism |
| Hobi | Listening to Vintage music, collecting pencil sketches, reading books, photography |
| Career | |
| Space Mission | Soyuz T-11 (1984)
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| Time Spent in Space | 7 days 21 hours and 40 minutes |
| Awards | • Conferred with the honour of the 'Hero of the Soviet Union.' • Awarded the Ashoka Chakra, highest peacetime gallantry award. |
| Hubungan Pasangan Pacar Istri | |
| Status Pernikahan | Menikah |
| Pacar | Tidak Diketahui |
| Istri / Pasangan | Madhu (Interior Decorator) |
| Anak-anak | Putra - Kapil Putri - Late Mansi, Kritika |
Profil dan Biodata Rakesh Sharma
- Rakesh Sharma joined the Indian Air force as a cadet in the year 1966, when he was just 18.
- After passing successfully from the National Defence Academy, Pune, he was commissioned into the Indian Air force as a test pilot. His perseverance and grit became evident 4-years later, when he was finally commissioned as a ‘pilot.’
- Sharma slowly and steadily advanced through many levels, and in 1984, he was appointed as the Squadron Leader of the Indian Air Force.
- In the year 1980, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) asked the Indian Air Force (IAF) to select two cosmonauts for a joint Indo-Soviet manned space mission. Thus, Wing Commanders Ravish Malhotra, 40, and Rakesh Sharma, 36, were chosen for the task. However, due to some reasons, the requirement was later reduced to only a single man. Hence, younger and ‘more robust’ Sharma was chosen for the mission.
- Sharma then underwent rigorous training for around 3 years. As part of the training, he was locked up by the air force in a room with artificial lights at an aerospace facility in Bangalore for 72 hours to test for “latent claustrophobia”. Additionally, he had to learn the Russian language quickly, as most of his training instructions were addressed in the same.
- Unfortunately, when Sharma was training in Moscow, he received the news that his 6-year-old daughter, Mansi, was no more. In spite of this, he did not abandon his training and went on to become the 128th man and only the first Indian to go to space.
- As part of the voyage, Sharma spent around 8 days aboard the Salyut 7 Orbital Station. At the station, his job was to conduct experiments, mainly in the fields of biomedicine and remote sensing.
- When the then PM of India, Indira Gandhi, asked Sharma, on a hazy live link, how India looked from space, he delivered a line in Hindi which would have easily become a viral tweet today. “Saare Jahan Se Achaa (The Best in the World)”, Sharma had replied.
- When Sharma came back home, little did he know that his achievement would be soon forgotten at the expense of 1984 anti-Sikh riots.
- He retired from the IAF with the rank of Wing Commander in 1987. Post retiring, Sharma joined Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and served as the Chief Test Pilot in the HAL Nashik Division till 1992.
- Sharma had a close shave with death during his stint with the HAL. One day when he was testing a MIG-21 fighter jet near Ozar in Nashik, he lost control of the plane owing to a technical snag. Fortunately, Sharma ejected out of the jet at the last moment.
- In an interview, he revealed that he practiced The ‘zero gravity yoga’ so as to deal with the issue of space sickness.
- Many people think that Rakesh Sharma is the first Indian to walk on the moon. However, this is a misconception and should not be given any heed. Putting simply, Sharma has never walked on the moon and is only the first Indian to go to space.
- His son, Kapil Sharma, is a Bollywood film director, who directed the 2013 John Abraham starrer- I, Me Aur Main. The movie, however, couldn’t do well at the box-office.
