Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 23, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Canada / world Winnipeg free press wednesday june 23, 2004 dream of space tourism in reach says Canadian by Paul Cross t Oronto ? since he was 14 years old Geoff Sheerin has dreamed of running his own com Pany to transport passengers into space. You should try telling your High school guidance counsellor that you want to build spacecraft and launch people he said from the London ont., office of his spacecraft company Canadian Arrow. It does to go Over very mondays successful flight of a competitor a spacecraft 100 Kilometres above Earth and safely Home again brought Sheerins dream one step closer to reality. Sheerin said he is thrilled with Mike Melvill a Brief flight on spaceship one because it Means he no longer has to try to convince people that a private com Pany can design build and finance a manned space flight. It really is very much like Charles Lindbergh a first flight because the first flight. Woke up the general Public to the excitement the Romance and the possibilities of aviation. For regular folks he said. Sheerin is equally enthusiastic about his company a efforts to launch its first manned flight even though space Shipone appears to have a leg up in the International Ansari x prize Competition. The Competition offers a $10-million us prize to the first team to safely launch and return a privately developed three person Craft 100 Kilometres into space twice within 14 Days. The clock is ticking for scaled technologies the group behind space Shipone and Sheerin maintains the prize can still be won by any of the 26 competitors. Yesterday spaceship one designer Burt Rutan admitted a serious malfunction had occurred during mondays flight. He said a trim system that Fine tunes flight controls had malfunctioned Caus ing the Craft to miss its atmospheric re entry Point by More than 30 Kilometres. Rutan said the problem would have to be resolved before a second flight. There was also a loud bang during the flight and the spaceship one team has not determined what caused it. The x prize is Only one of Sheerins goals. He also Hopes to turn space travel into a lucrative business. Sheerin said sub Orbital flight will drastically Cut travel times around the world. Any Point on Earth technically is 45 minutes from anywhere else if you re going through by sub Orbital space Craft Sheerin said. If you have a sub Orbital Craft that carries 10 people and you can Fly it lets sue Reeve / London free press Archive Terry Wong from left David Ballinger Jason Dyer Larry Clark Marvin Ted Gow and or. Yarko Pustov i Are Canadian arrows astronauts. Say once an hour you can probably carry its own lightweight spacesuits. The equivalent of a jumbo Jet Back and Canadian Arrow plans to launch test Forward from Toronto to Tokyo and have flights of its spacecraft later this sum a regular service using a much smaller Mer from a site near Lake Huron with manned flights to follow. Sheerin believes space tourism in tits Canadian rival the a Vinci pro too far off. Canadian Arrow has already Jet is planning test flights this summer opened the worlds first private training from a site near Kindersley sask. School for astronauts and space Passen ? Canadian press Gers in London ont., and has designed Luna remains elusive prize in Large scale tug of War wearing his wet suit. By Scott Sutherland Wright said the Crew allowed about 10 Days for the capture and figured with delays the scientists g old River . ? Luna a rambunctious have now used about half of that allotment. And dangerously Friendly orca again swam an ramp spokesman said officers were present toward aboriginal paddlers last night turn last night Only to assist with potential safety issues. Ing his Tail on government scientists hoping to the whale has been caught in a Large scale game capture him. Of tug of War Between scientists who want to uniformed officers on an ramp inflatable boat reunite the orca with his pod and local aboriginals looked on As the orca moved about 500 metres from in canoes who want him to stay. Where he a been playing just outside a net pen. Earlier in the Day Luna spent several hours Fol the Federal scientists eventually called off their lowing three department of fisheries boats Cruis efforts for the night but said they would Start Over ing in lock step but just before noon he broke today. Away to go the opposite direction following the the whale had been swimming in and out of the sounds of the aboriginals stamping their paddles on pen but officials from the department of fish the Bottom of their canoes and singing. Eries and oceans held Back from capturing him to he was again distracted last night when the ensure Luna was comfortable. Canoes returned and chief Mike Laquinna of the a spokesman for the capture Effort said last mow Schaht Mucha Laht first nation said his people night he want frustrated but acknowledged time would take to the water today. Was pressing on. The area aboriginals believe Luna is the rein we re getting reports every Day that his family Carnation of their former chief. Is swimming past the Mouth of Pedder Bay Clint hopefully he a made the Choice to come with Wright vice president operations of the Vancouver us rather be led into a pen said Laquinna last aquarium said of the area where scientists Hope to night. Reunite Luna with his pod. 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