Too late to send Indians into space: Cosmonaut Rakesh Sharma
On being questioned if it was too early for India to send humans into space, Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian in space, said it's "more like too late". Sharma, who flew with two Soviet cosmonauts in 1984, gave an example of the ISS, saying, "India has not yet leveraged the near-Earth environment for science, for which manned flights are necessary".