rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) (09/28/84)
The government of India has accepted a U.S. invitation to include an Indian astronaut in the crew of the space shuttle mission in 1986 which will deploy India's U.S.-built Insat 1-C weather and communications satellite. This would be India's second astronaut. The first, Rakesh Sharma, was aboard the Soviet Soyuz T-11 spacecraft last April. The Indian selected for the U.S. flight would be either a scientist or an engineer with the Indian Space Research Organization. -- Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe