Indian Human Spaceflight Program
The Indian human spaceflight programme is a proposal by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to develop and launch the ISRO Orbital Vehicle, which is to carry a two-member crew to Low Earth Orbit by 2016. The spaceship would be launched by India's GSLV-Mk II launcher. The recent reports indicate that the human spaceflight may be after 2017, on a GSLV-Mk III, as venture is not part of the 12th five-year plan (2012-2017). There is no time frame set for this mission as of now, with scientists admitting in private it may not happen in this decade, as ISRO does not have a human-rated launch vehicle and there is a budgetary constraints from the Union Government.
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