India Launches its First Manned Spacecraft

[Eric Mc]

... on an unmanned suborbital lob downrange into the Indian Ocean.

http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/countdown...

[CrutyRammers]

Fair play. Seems that everyone's going into space just now.

[Simpo Two]

The 'second wave' is taking off, 50 years behind the first.

There seem to be two national pride/coming-of-age goals. One is the atom bomb, the other is a man in space. Though whether the second wave will go to the moon I'm not so sure, as it's been 'done'.