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India Working on Manned Spaceflight - Yazata - Jul 7, 2018

They just tested a crew escape system for their manned space capsule.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/isro-conducts-first-crew-escape-test-for-indias-manned-mission-to-space/articleshow/64867214.cms

https://www.isro.gov.in/update/05-jul-2018/successful-flight-testing-of-crew-escape-system-technology-demonstrator

Here's what their capsule looks like. (Looks like an old 1960's NASA capsule with SpaceX style fold-out grid-fins.)

The Chinese on the other hand obviously got technical help from Russia and their manned capsules look like the Russian Soyuz.


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