New Indian Rocket Could Orbit Humans
India's third-generation Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV Mk III), scheduled to make its first flight in 2007-08, is designed to carry a 10-ton payload into low-Earth orbit. That would be more than sufficient for a manned mission to space, according to G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of the...
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