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Disambiguation page?[edit]

I recommend that someone put up a disambiguation page, to separate the cosmonaut from the filmmaker of the same name. The latter produced a documentary about the 2002 Gujarat riots. Sorry I don't know how to do it myself. The Sanity Inspector (talk) 20:43, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

birth place[edit]

is he born in Patiala or Ludhiana? many sites say Patiala except Wikipedia. --Kurumban (talk) 19:13, 2 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Google query '"Rakesh Sharma" Patiala' return results for the Astronaut Rakesh Sharma. And query '"Rakesh Sharma" Ludhiana' return results for some other person with same name. So it is Patiala. Rāmā (talk) 15:20, 20 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bhagalpur, Bihar RAKESHSHARMA1032 (talk) 10:36, 13 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Missions?[edit]

Is the below list correct?

Wiki-uk (talk) 14:00, 2 October 2009 (UTC). He was the first Indian to so to space[reply]

Yes Pushpa Latha C M (talk) 12:57, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Redlink[edit]

Can anyone fix the spelling of the redlink in the early life section? --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 14:41, 12 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It has been fixed. --Extra 999 (Contact ^me + _contribs) 17:00, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've redirected a draft called Draft:Untitled Rakesh Sharma biopic here that may be useful at some point. Legacypac (talk) 18:25, 19 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Rebuilding Space Research with Collaboration[edit]

Hello Rakesh Sir! I want to talk to you about being able to bring up the Indian Space Research to next level by collaborating with world space organisations! Can you please help me? 2402:8100:2062:96AF:42B:3C6F:C4A8:3E75 (talk) 09:18, 19 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

hero of the soviet union[edit]

I believed R. Sharma was the first Indian to receive the 'hero of the soviet union' GrandVizierWazir (talk) 18:15, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong picture[edit]

hello everyone. i just tell that there is picture of a spacesuit in this article,given as space suit of Rakesh Sharma. Actually that is space suit of Ravish Malhotra who also trained Along with Rakesh Sharma. i suggest somebody please take original picture of his space suit and upload it. SANJAI DS (talk) 09:57, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I noticed that too. The picture needs to be deleted or the wordings should be changed to depict the correct infomration (that is was Malhotra's). Malhotra's name is written on the suit. Gopalakrishnanms (talk) 03:37, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I renamed the description to correctly indicated whose suit was it. However, since it is not Rakesh Sharma's, the photograph may need to be deleted as it is not much relevant there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gopalakrishnanms (talk • contribs) 03:46, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]