India: $3 Billion for Human Launch Program

India is developing a human-rated launch system and expects it to be ready by 2016 to ferry gaganauts to Low-Earth-Orbit (LEO) in a three-person crew space capsule. The human crew will be boosted to space atop of a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle MkIII rocket. India's space aganecy awaits expected year-end approval of a $3-billion budget to puruse the human launch program.

India' human space launch team is working with Russia's Federal Space Agency, which helped China with its manned space program, in the development of a training and human space flight regime.