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| | The $10 million competition to send a private manned rocket into space started looking more like a race Thursday, when a Canadian team announced plans to launch its rocket three days after an American group intends to begin qualifying for the Ansari X prize. Leaders of the Canadian da Vinci Project plan to launch their Wild Fire rocket Oct. 2 from Kindersley, Saskatchewan.The da Vinci Project's Wild Fire has a traditional rocket configuration, with a capsule on top of a booster, but it will be carried up to about 80,000 feet by a reusable balloon before it is released and its rocket motor is ignited. The capsule and booster are designed to separate and descend beneath parachutes for reuse. |
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