This article is part of the meta-post 4169 Words Mostly Mine or How George Allen Is A Racist Biggot. This article covers how Cape Breton will be the launching point of some spacecrafts in the future.
Cape Breton becomes a factor in space tourism, when Geoff Sheerin’s arrow shaped Silver Dart spacecraft will launch by 2010. The goal of this venture is to be able to reduce the price of sending a kilo to space to about 1000$. “Once that happens, the opportunities for commercialization are going to be huge.” Says Mr James, an executive with the economic development agency Nova Scotia Business Inc.
HALIFAX — On the unseasonably mild winter day of Jan. 18, Mark James set out from Halifax on a morning’s drive to Sydney on Cape Breton Island, laughing under his breath most of the way.
The former Air Force pilot, now an executive with the economic development agency Nova Scotia Business Inc., was meeting with a pair of rocket scientists — Chirinjeev Kathuria of Chicago and Geoff Sheerin of London, Ont.
The men are partners and chairman and president respectively of the futuristic sounding Chicago-based company PlanetSpace, which hopes to sell space trips as tourism as well as shuttle astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station for the U.S. space agency NASA from a launch pad on the Cape.
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When that happens on Cape Breton… wow what an economic boost to a small region already suffering. More than that though, the impact of this venture, it will put the Maritimes (NB, PE, NS) on the map.
It’s surprising though great for such a small place in Canada. We will have our own launchpads and spaceplanes!