India not to undertake human space flight before 2017:
India will not undertake a human space flight before the year 2017 and is likely to use a next-generation rocket for the ambitious mission, the cost of which would be reworked, Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation, K Radhakrishnan said.
India will launch its first manned space mission in 2016 in a bid to match space pioneers such as Russia and the United States, a top official said on Wednesday.