India raises budget for human spaceflight mission to $2.32bn

BENGALURU (Reuters) -- India has expanded its Gaganyaan human spaceflight mission to include building and operating a national space station, planning two crewed and six uncrewed missions by 2028, a minister said on Thursday.

Gaganyaan, meaning "sky craft" in Hindi, is India's first human spaceflight mission. It aims to launch a habitable space capsule into a 400-kilometer orbit and safely return it with a splashdown in the Indian Ocean.