Canadian Arrow announces astronaut team
Posted: Fri, Jun 27, 2003, 9:46 PM ET (0146 GMT)
Canadian Arrow, an X Prize competitor, announced Thursday the group of six astronauts who will fly the team's suborbital spacecraft. The six people, all men, include four Canadians, one American, and one Ukrainian who trained as the backup for a Ukrainian cosmonaut who flew on the shuttle in 1997. Two of the astronauts will fly on the two qualifying flights the Canadian Arrow spacecraft needs to win the X Prize, while the remaining two will serve as backups. The two-stage vertically launched rocket is currently being developed in Ontario, and the team plans to launch the spacecraft by late 2004 from a barge in Lake Huron.
Canadian Arrow, an X Prize competitor, announced Thursday the group of six astronauts who will fly the team's suborbital spacecraft. The six people, all men, include four Canadians, one American, and one Ukrainian who trained as the backup for a Ukrainian cosmonaut who flew on the shuttle in 1997. Two of the astronauts will fly on the two qualifying flights the Canadian Arrow spacecraft needs to win the X Prize, while the remaining two will serve as backups. The two-stage vertically launched rocket is currently being developed in Ontario, and the team plans to launch the spacecraft by late 2004 from a barge in Lake Huron.
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