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The following is a list of Indian astronauts, also known informally as Vyomanauts for indigenous missions by ISRO. The list excludes foreign astronauts of Indian origin.
Lists of Indian people are lists of people from India. They are grouped by various criteria, including ethnicity, states and union territories and city. Part of a series of articles on Indian people Motto: Jai Hind People Lists of Indian people History Indian independence movement Quit India Movement Culture Architecture Art Cinema Cuisine Dance Festivals Literature Music Sports Languages ...
First Indian American in space and First Indian origin woman in Space. Died on the Columbia. STS-87 (November 19, 1997) STS-107 (January 16, 2003) 2 Sunita Williams September 19, 1965 India United States: Served on ISS Expedition 14/15, Expedition 32/33 and Expedition 71/72. Second female commander of ISS.
According to the American Community Survey of the United States Census Bureau, the Indian American population in the United States grew from almost 1.67 million in 2000 to 3.1 million in 2010 which is the third-largest Asian American community in the United States after Chinese Americans and Filipino Americans.
The boat used in his circumnavigation as part of the Sagar Parikrama project was the Indian Navy Sailing Vessel INSV Mhadei, custom built by the Indian Navy. The 56-foot Van de Stadt 'Tonga' design sloop was built as a wood core epoxy construction by Mr Ratnakar Dandekar at his boat yard Aquarius Shipyard Pvt Ltd on Divar island in Goa by ...
And of course, there’s always Mohammad — but know if you choose this, your boy won’t likely be the only one in his class with the name — it was the most popular Indian baby name as of 2022.
Kalpana Chawla (March 17, 1962 – February 1, 2003) was an Indian American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. Chawla expressed an interest in aerospace engineering from an early age and took engineering classes at Dayal Singh College and Punjab Engineering College in India.
On 27 June 2004, an Indian postage stamp featuring Nain Singh [11] was issued commemorating his role in the Great Trigonometric Survey of India. In 2006, Shekhar Pathak and Uma Bhatt brought out a biography of Nain Singh with three of his diaries and the RGS articles about his travels in three volumes titled Asia ki Peeth Par published by Pahar ...