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Who is the first Indian cosmonaut?

  1. Kalpana Chaowla

  2. Sunita Williams

  3. Rakesh Sharma

  4. Neil Armstrong
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Explanation

Rakesh Sharma became the first Indian citizen to travel in space in 1984 as part of the Soviet Union's Intercosmos program. He flew aboard the Soyuz T-11 to the Salyut 7 space station. Kalpana Chawla and Sunita Williams were American astronauts of Indian origin. Neil Armstrong was American.

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