Gaganyaan: India to launch test flight ahead of sending man into space

Named after the Sanskrit word for craft or vehicle to the sky, Gaganyaan project has been developed at the cost of 90bn rupees ($1bn; £897m). It aims to send the astronauts to an orbit of 400km (248 miles) and bring them back after three days. If it succeeds, India will become only the fourth country to send a human into space after the Soviet Union, the US and China.