From audrawilliams
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Cape Breton is going to enter the space race.
The Toronto Star has learned that Nova Scotia has signed a "team agreement" to provide 300 acres of land - and perhaps even some funding - for a massive orbital launch facility that will involve industry giants and could eventually be on scale with huge NASA operations.
"We're basically building a private manned space program for Canada," says Chicago's Dr. Chirinjeev Kathuria, chairman of the PlanetSpace firm that lit the fuse for this deal.
"The facility will see orbital flights, similar to the Kennedy Space Center."
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I mirror her sentiment when she says, "HOLY SHIT!"
Cape Breton is going to enter the space race.
The Toronto Star has learned that Nova Scotia has signed a "team agreement" to provide 300 acres of land - and perhaps even some funding - for a massive orbital launch facility that will involve industry giants and could eventually be on scale with huge NASA operations.
"We're basically building a private manned space program for Canada," says Chicago's Dr. Chirinjeev Kathuria, chairman of the PlanetSpace firm that lit the fuse for this deal.
"The facility will see orbital flights, similar to the Kennedy Space Center."
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I mirror her sentiment when she says, "HOLY SHIT!"