India will launch its first manned mission in 2016 with two astronauts for a week-long odyssey in space, said a top Indian space agency official on Wednesday. "We are planning a human space flight in 2016, with two astronauts who will spend seven days in the earth's lower orbit," Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. Radhakrishnan told reporters in Bangalore.
Dave Wolf and Timothy Kopra completed the spacewalk on Saturday.
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The plan is to achieve the mission by 2015 said ISRO chief.
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CNN-IBN's Rati Chaudhary spoke to some experts to find out.
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China's most ambitious space project has been launched on Thursday.
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The Union Budget has allocated an allocation of Rs 50 crore for India's ambitious manned spaceflight.
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India's top space scientists and technocrats have given go-ahead to the plan for a manned space mission.
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