Forty years after Rakesh Sharma told Indira Gandhi that India looked "Saare Jahaan Se Accha" from space, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, fresh from a 286-day mission aboard the International Space ...

Dr Dinesh C. Sharma uses two broad themes in his book—the ISRO story and Indians in space, with special focus on astronauts ...

India’s first astronaut, Wing Commander (retd) Rakesh Sharma ... stepped into space in 1984 when the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi decided to send someone from Indian Air Force to space ...

Back in 1984, Rakesh Sharma, India’s first astronaut, looked down at his homeland from space and summed it up with a line from Muhammad Iqbal’s poem, “Saare Jahaan Se Accha” — when then prime minister ...