Write two lines about each of these astronaut.
1. Yuri Gagarin -
2. Rakesh Sharma -
3. Kalpana Chawla -
4. Sunita Williams -
5. Edwin Aldrin -
6. Neil Armstrong -
Answers
Yuri Gagarin
→ Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet Air Forces pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, achieving a major milestone in the Space Race; his capsule, Vostok 1, completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.
Rakesh Sharma
→ Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma, AC is a former Indian Air Force pilot who flew aboard Soyuz T-11 on 3 April 1984 with the Soviet Interkosmos programme. He is the only Indian citizen to travel in space, although there have been other astronauts with an Indian background who were not Indian citizens.
Kalpana Chawla
→ Kalpana Chawla was an American astronaut, engineer, and the first woman of Indian origin to go to space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator.
Answer:
rakesh Sharma was the first Indian To go into the space