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Canadian Team To Launch X-Prize Attempt Oct. 2

Posted by timothy on from the balloon-ascension dept.

FreeHeel writes "A second team of rocketeers competing for the $10 million Ansari X Prize, a contest for privately funded suborbital space flight, has officially announced the first launch date for its manned rocket. The da Vinci Project, led by Brian Feeney of Toronto, Ontario, said Thursday the group plans to loft its Wild Fire Mark VI spacecraft on Oct. 2, just days after the planned launch of another X Prize contender, the U.S-based SpaceShipOne. The balloon-launched Wild Fire event will be followed by a second launch within two weeks to snag the X Prize purse, according to the plan."

5 of 211 comments (clear)

  1. Saskatchewan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Saskatchewan rules. All Americans may now line up so suckle on Saskatchewan's conceptual collective ballsac.

    Fuck you, Yankees.

  2. Re:$10M US? That's like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    bang the prime minister's wifre,

    Have you SEEN the Prime Minister's wife? You'd need another $10M to pay for the therapy when you're done.

    and have change left over for a decent meal in New York

    Such a thing exists in NY ?

  3. Re:Crime in Space. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, the guy just raised a teenage daughter, so you'd probably want to kill yourself, too, right about now.

  4. tac0 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't walk around rEcent a8ticle put

  5. Re:Let's hope... by Bobzibub · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's always cold in Canada. Don't worry 'bout it.
    = )

    Go Team Canuck!
    -b