Multiple choice general knowledge

India's first astronaut is

  1. Kalpana Chawla

  2. Rakesh Sharma

  3. Jayant Naralikar

  4. Rakesh Verma
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Explanation

Rakesh Sharma was India's first astronaut and the first Indian to go to space in 1984. Kalpana Chawla was born in India but was an American astronaut when she flew on NASA missions. Jayant Narlikar is an astrophysicist, not an astronaut.

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