Indian human spaceflight program

The Indian human Spaceflight programme is a proposal by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to develop and launch a two-person crew to low Earth orbit. Reports indicate that their human spaceflight will occur after 2017, on a GSLV-Mk III, as the mission is not included in the government's 12th five-year plan (2012–2017). Since the ISRO does not have a human-rated launch vehicle or the budget from the government to undertake such a flight, it will not happen before 2020.

India's First Manned Space Mission was planned in 2014 by the Indian Space Research Organisation. Dr K Radhakrishnan, Chairman, ISRO told this in an interview to NDTV.

As of January 2017, has put off by four years its first experimental manned mission — from 2020 to 2024 — on board a home-grown GSLV-III rocket.[1]

On 9 August 2007 the then Chairman of the ISRO, G Madhavan Nair, indicated the agency is "seriously considering" a human spaceflight mission. He further indicated that within a year ISRO would report on its development of new space capsule technologies.

Development of a fully autonomous orbital vehicle to carry a two-member crew into a low-Earth orbit (LEO) has already begun. ISRO sources said the flight is likely to be in 2016. Government had allocated ₹95 crore (US$14.8 million) for pre-project initiatives for 2007 through 2008. A crewed mission into space would require about ₹12,400 crore (US$1.9 billion) and a period of seven years. Planning Commission estimates that a budget of ₹5,000 crore (US$776.5 million) is required for initial work on the manned mission during the eleventh five-year plan (2007–12). A project report prepared by ISRO has been cleared by space commission. In February 2009 the Government of India gave the green light for the manned space flight programme, due to launch in 2016.

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