The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), a unit of the country's premier Indian space research programme, plans to send two humans into space by 2015.
The project is awaiting a final clearance from the central government. "The pre-project approval of Rs.95 crore ($19 million) has already come and the approval of the main project is being awaited. The human spaceflight program is to develop and launch an orbital vehicle to carry a two-member crew to the earth's lower orbit. The estimate is that it should happen by 2015. The director also confirmed reports that space suits for the project will be manufactured at organisation's unit here. This is just one of the many things which the organisation would be doing here as part of the major programme.
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