India to manufacture manned spaceship with Russia’s help
Russia has decided to help India in making an indigenous manned spaceship by providing the technology used in developing Souyz spacecraft. The project is expected to be completed by the year 2020.
Regarding the issue, a senior official said, "The Indian side intends to use the experience of building the manned spaceship Soyuz to advance in building their own spaceship. We will build this spaceship on a similar technical scheme, but it will not resemble Soyuz."
The chief of the department of piloted programmes of the federal space agency, Roskosmos, Mr. Alexei Krasnov has informed the Itar-Tass news agency that the Russian spaceship Soyuz is heavier and cannot be launched by Indian Rocket boosters which are too light to carry the spaceship.
The Indian spaceship would be built with the same technology as the Soyuz craft, but will carry a different outer model. India and Russia have been cooperating with each other since 1980s and Russia will assist India in this programme till the year 2020.
It was the Russian spacecraft Soyuf, in which India's first Astronaut Rakesh Sharma traveled to space in the year 1984. During his space travel he spent eight days on the Salyut-7 orbital station and performed various scientific experiments.
