Pressing On: Upper-stage failure trips up human spaceflight development in India

摘要

India's human spaceflight effort has been set back at least a year by the April 15 test-flight failure of a new indigenous cryogenic upper-stage rocket engine, but so far all indications are the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will continue working on its three-seat capsule and a way to launch it. ISRO officials say it probably will take that long before another flight of the Cryogenic Upper Stage can be mounted.