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Personal: Male, Married, Two children. Born in Lahore, India. Indian Air Force Indian Air Force Indian Air Force test pilot. Astronaut Career Astronaut Group: International Group - 1982. Inactive Entered space service: 20 September 1982. Left space service: 11 April 1984. Stationed at the space test center in Bangalore. Later he worked for the Aerospace Department of Dynamatic Technologies Ltd.., Bangalore. Brigadier General (Air Commodore), Retired. Skiing.
Malhotra Chronology 20 September 1982 - International Cosmonaut Training Group selected.. Training group of Indian 'guest cosmonauts' for a propaganda flight to the Salyut space station. 3 April 1984 - Soyuz T-11. Assignment: Backup Crew. Flight: Salyut 7 EP-3, Salyut 7 EO-3. Manned three crew. Docked with Salyut 7.Transported a Soviet-Indian international crew comprising ship's commander Y V Malyshev, flight engineer G M Strekalov (USSR) and cosmonaut-researcher R Sharma (India) to the SALYUT-7 orbital station to conduct scientific and technical studies and experiments. Bibliography and Further Reading
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