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India Moving Toward Human Spaceflight Program
July 8, 2018
Last week’s test of a crew escape system signals a renewed push by ISRO for an indigenous human spaceflight program, Business Standard reports.
Days after it successfully carried out a flight test for a new system, meant for saving lives of astronauts in an exigency, ISRO today said it would approve in a month’s time an ‘internal document’ on developing crucial technologies under its Human Spaceflight Programme.
“No human spaceflight programme has been approved in India yet. We had prepared the document to develop crucial technologies in 2004.
Now we are in the process of revising it. In a month’s time, we will approve our internal document,” ISRO Chairman Dr K Sivan told reporters after the 11th annual Katre Memorial Lecture here…
Sivan said the document, which was being worked on for over a decade, is being revised for review and interactions with stakeholders, including Indian Air Force and Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd.
http://www.parabolicarc.com/2018/07/08/india-moving-human-spaceflight-program/
(Short article, no more at link.)