Indian manned spacecraft will be scaled-down Soyuz

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Indian manned spacecraft will be scaled-down Soyuz

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Published: 23 December, 2009, 10:44
Edited: 13 February, 2010, 01:43

India's future space program will rely on Russian technology to deliver a cosmonaut into orbit. The future manned spacecraft will be based on the Soyuz, and Russian specialists will help build it.

The cooperation request has already been supported by both Russian space agency Roscosmos and the producer of the Soyuz manned spacecraft Energia.

"India is interested in developing its own manned program. It is no surprise they have turned to Russia, because our countries have been cooperating in the space sphere since soviet times," said head of Roscosmos Aleksey Krasnov.

The capsule will use the same design approach as the Soyuz, but it will be smaller, because India lacks launch vehicles powerful enough to deliver a heavy spacecraft into orbit.

The project is in the early stages at the moment and will take at least a decade to complete, according to Krasnov.

Russia and India have a number of joint space and military projects, including a Moon exploration program and a fifth-generation fighter jet.

Source: Indian manned spacecraft will be scaled-down Soyuz — RT

so the article says that the launch vehicle will be indian but the capsule or the spacecraft having astronauts in it will be souz scaled down version. well it could be true as said by the russians because there is nothing as of now with indian isro to take astronauts to space and get them backsafe on earth.

we can be happy to have atleast the launch vehicle good enough to take indians in space.
 
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Russians have been partners in our space program for a long time. Under Bush nuclear
bill to India,USA and India were suppose to collaborate more in space but other than chandradayaan
nothing more came from this.
 

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