Rakesh Sharma. Yet the years neither faded my hope or took away my fascination of meeting an astronaut some day. As a NASA astronaut on active duty from 1979 to 1987, Jon McBride flew on both the Columbia Space Shuttle and the Orbiter Challenger. “The sunrise and sunset we saw was something most mesmerising and wonderful ever.”Has he met Rakesh Sharma? In future, people will wait to go to Mars for honeymoon!” And I will continue to wait to meet the only Indian astronaut Rakesh Sharma.

Source: The Hindu August 24, 2016 11:37 UTC