SPACE - Indian space shuttle makes first test flight

India has successfully launched an experimental spacecraft it hopes will form the basis of its own re-usable space shuttle. ISRO launched the vehicle on a rocket from its facility north of Chennai. 
The $15 million dollar test craft was carried to an altitude of 70 kilometers after which it reentered the Earth's atmosphere, exposing it to temperatures up to 2000 degrees Celsius.

INC News, 23/05/2016 - source: ©AlJazeera