Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihlts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxww!gamma!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) Newsgroups: net.columbia Subject: Indian to fly on shuttle Message-ID: <578@ihlts.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Sep-84 09:59:10 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlts.578 Posted: Fri Sep 28 09:59:10 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Sep-84 10:32:22 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 9 The government of India has accepted a U.S. invitation to include an Indian astronaut in the crew of the space shuttle mission in 1986 which will deploy India's U.S.-built Insat 1-C weather and communications satellite. This would be India's second astronaut. The first, Rakesh Sharma, was aboard the Soviet Soyuz T-11 spacecraft last April. The Indian selected for the U.S. flight would be either a scientist or an engineer with the Indian Space Research Organization. -- Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe