India plans to launch its first manned space mission in 2016, moving to become the fourth nation to put a man in space.
Space scientists and senior officials of the state-run ISRO are preparing a pre-project report to build the infrastructure and facilities for the mission, estimated to cost a $2.76 billion.
ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan said the agency would develop the space module for the program within four years.
"We are planning a human space flight in 2016, with two astronauts who will spend seven days in the Earth's lower orbit," Radhakrishnan told reporters at ISRO headquarters in Bangalore.
The government had allocated $10 million for pre-project initiatives in 2007-08.
The sad part is that, if rumors are true, Obama is about to gut the American space program.
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