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From the Toronto Star:<br />Splashdown test buoys rocket team<br /><br /><blockquote><p align="left"><font color="#ffaa44">Canadian Arrow drops capsule into Lake Ontario London crew vying for $10 million space-race prize</font></p><br /><p align="left"><font color="#ffaa44">SCOTT SIMMIE<br />STAFF REPORTER</font></p><br /><p align="left"><font color="#ffaa44">The still waters just south of Centre Island were transformed yesterday morning into Cape Canaveral North, as a Canadian entry in the $10 million (U.S.) Ansari X Prize competition carried out a splashdown test of its crew cabin. It looked like something from the early days of NASA, except the cabin was unmanned. (Oh yes. And the U.S. navy wasn't there.)</font></p><br /><p align="left"><font color="#ffaa44">Nonetheless, the test takes Canadian Arrow one small step closer to making its first manned suborbital flight before the end of the year, and to eventually carrying passengers who'll pay good coin to kiss the cheek of space.</font></p></blockquote><br /><br /><hr width="400" /><br /><br />From SDC:<br />Canadian Ansari X Prize Entrant Takes the Plunge in Test<br /><br /><blockquote><p align="left"><font color="#ffaa44">By Tariq Malik<br />Staff Writer<br />posted: 14 August 2004<br />1:30 p.m. ET</font></p><br /> <p align="left"><font color="#ffaa44">A Canadian team of rocketeers has moved one step closer to launching its own manned spacecraft with the successful parachute drop test of a crew capsule today.</font></p></blockquote><br /><br /><hr width="400" /><br /><br />Canadian Arrow Website <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <font size="3" color="#ff9900"><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>------------------------------------------------------------------- </em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong><em>"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions as not to discourage them too much. It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."</em></strong></font></p><p><font size="1" color="#993300"><strong>Thomas Jefferson</strong></font></p></font> </div>
 
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