India is advancing its human spaceflight program with the construction of an 100 acre Astronaut Training Center near Bangalore now set for completion in 2012 to serve the nation's planned first human spaceflight in 2015, according to Flight International.
India would be the fourth nation behind Russia, the United States and China to place humans in low earth orbit (LEO). The Indian leadership is advancing space technologies rapidly to keep pace with the three human orbital missions conducted by the neighboring Chinese in Asia. More from WebIndia.
Indian astronauts may fly sooner to orbit however.
India would be the fourth nation behind Russia, the United States and China to place humans in low earth orbit (LEO). The Indian leadership is advancing space technologies rapidly to keep pace with the three human orbital missions conducted by the neighboring Chinese in Asia. More from WebIndia.
Indian astronauts may fly sooner to orbit however.
India and Russia have a proposal, dormant for sometime, for sending two Indians to the International Space Station before 2015. In fact, one of the sources said the flight could be as early as 2012.
India's spaceflight officials are considering a human mission to the Moon as a follow-on to their effort with Chandrayaan-I now in lunar orbit.
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