5 Indians Who Have Been To Space

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The first Indian national went to space in 1984, spending 7 days, 21 hours, and 40 minutes on the Salyut 7 orbital station

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Here is a list of five people of Indian origin who have been to space

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Rakesh Sharma made history by becoming the first and only Indian citizen to travel to space aboard the Soyuz T-11 on April 3, 1984

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Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian-born woman and the second Indian person to go to space in 1997

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Sunita Williams' journey into space began with the STS-116 mission on December 9, 2006. She is the second American astronaut of Indian origin to go space after Kalpana Chawla

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Raja Jon Vurputoor Chari, an Indian-American test pilot and NASA astronaut, docked at the International Space Station (ISS) in November 2021

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On 11 July 2021, aeronautical engineer Sirisha Bandla became the third Indian-origin woman to fly into space

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