Canadian Arrow Takes a Shot

These guys just won't quit. I like that in an engineer!

Despite losing the Ansari X-Prize the Canadian Arrow Team has continued trying to loft a V-2 rocket powered spaceship of its own. According to a story at SpaceDaily.com all they needed was a little money:


"We have found our Paul Allen," Canadian Arrow team leader Geoff Sheerin told United Press International.
The team is renaming its venture PlanetSpace, a 50-50 partnership with investor Chirinjeev Kathuria, an Indian-American physician-turned-businessman and aspiring politician.... Kathuria is no stranger to commercial space projects. He was a founding director of a company formed to lease Russia's now-defunct Mir space station. MirCorp paid for one commercial mission by cosmonauts to Mir and arranged to fly the world's first fare-paying tourist, Dennis Tito, to the outpost.



Read the entire story here.

Whatever it takes to make it happen, I guess. But, is it just me or do they sound more grateful to Kathuria's money than they do to him?