JAXA Manned Capsule

[XP67_Moonbat]

Looks like Japan's getting on the capsule band wagon.

http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/hyperbola/2009/01/pictures-jaxas-h-iib-launched.html

 

[blackstar]

Their senior minister who has responsibility for space gave an interview to Space News about a month or two ago and stated that Japan was not going to develop its own human spaceflight capability. He was unequivocal about it. I suspect that this project is like many other examples where Japanese industry or lower level JAXA engineers produced concept art for a project with no official approval. If you look at drawings of their robotic spaceplane in the early 1990s it often had windows.

 

[blackstar]

India's proposed manned spacecraft.

They supposedly are getting Russian help, but this does not look Russian at all.

 

[Archibald]

Sounds a reasonable project, aside the date. 2015 looks a bit too much optimistic

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

I'll bet curry will be served on that flight. My mouth's already watering . Besides, seeing as you lose your sense of taste in space, curry would be a logical choice of food up there.