Russia will help India build a manned spaceship and send an Indian astronaut to space under a 10-year cooperation programme.
The spaceship would be modelled after the Soyuz craft, but it would be smaller to match the lighter Indian boosters.
India’s first astronaut Rakesh Sharma travelled to space aboard a Soyuz in 1984.
He spent eight days on the Salyut-7 orbital station and did various scientific experiments. Subsequent plans to send two Indian astronauts to space on a U.S. shuttle were scrapped after the Challenger disaster in 1986.
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