India is working towards realising its dream - to create a re-usable satellite launch vehicle. An engineering model of what scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) call the re-usable launch vehicle, is currently housed at a secure and secret facility in Kerala, India. More tests will occur in 2012.
In parallel, India has more realistic and currently working a program for human spaceflights in 2016 with non-reusable conventional spacecraft orbital vehicle launched by non-reusable launcher GSLV. An astronaut training facility is begin created in Bangalore. The initial two-member "Gaganaut" space crew will spend a week in space, if all goes as now planned.
India's space agency is planning to launch its first robotic mission to land on the Moon in 2013. Chandrayaan-2, which literally means the second moon vehicle in the Sanskrit language, will be a collaboration with Russia. Scientists will utilize the rover to assess the presence of water, oxygen and salt - all necessary of humans are to eventually build longer-term presence on the Moon.
The Satish Dhawan Space Center on the island north of Chennai, India will serve as the launch facility for the Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission as well as the planned 2016 human orbital mission launch site. But according to a post at Parabolic Arc, the human space effort by India may be delayed.
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