NAIROBI: India's sole astronaut to have landed in space, Rakesh Sharma was at the UN environment assembly in Nairobi. We are in a mode of survival today.Sending people up in space without having a manned space programme is like getting your horse ready much before the cart is there. I don't think so that it is the best way to utilise our resources given our other needs and compulsion. I'm proud that India's space programme has achieved so much in such a short span of time.I don't think so.I feel sorry that I'm the only Indian to have been to space and that too 33 years ago. There hasn't been any other Indian, I feel lonely in that sense.

Source: Times of India December 05, 2017 05:37 UTC