India will launch a manned spacecraft in 2016

The Indian Space Research Agency (ISRO) plans to launch the country's first spacecraft in 2016 if the government approves the project budget.

On January 28, an ISRO S.Satish spokesman said the agency was looking for a budget of Rs 120 billion ($ 2.6 billion) to implement the ambition of bringing two astronauts into space within 1 week.

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Currently, the Indian Government has supported the establishment of a project fund worth Rs 4 billion (about $ 80 million) for the organization to conduct some initial research on space flight.

In October 2008, India launched the Chandrayaan-1 satellite, India's first artificial satellite orbiting the Moon's orbit.

Although removed for nearly a year after losing contact and scientists lost the ability to control the satellite, Chandrayaan-1 brought India into a group of countries capable of studying the Moon.

Before India, only the US, Russia, European Aerospace Agency, Japan and China launched similar launches.

Backed by the booming economic development in recent years, India is actively investing in the development of high-tech fields for military and political purposes with the ambition to rise to become a world power. .

Following Chandrayaan-1, India plans to ship Sanskrit (in Indian meaning Moon Train) to land on the Moon in 2011.

India began the space program in the 1960s and since 1975 it has launched into space more than 50 remote sensing and satellite sensors.