Canadian Arrow
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The Canadian Arrow was a privately funded, Canadian, early-2000s rocket and space tourism project concept founded by London, Ontario, based entrepreneurs Geoff Sheerin, Dan McKibbon and Chris Corke. T
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A rendering of a Canadian Arrow vehicle in flight
Canadian Arrow founders from left to right: Dan McKibbon, Chris Corke, Geoff Sheerin.
Canadian Arrow Astronauts.
Sub-orbital spaceflight
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A sub-orbital spaceflight is a spaceflight in which the vehicle reaches outer space, but its trajectory intersects the surface of the gravitating body from which it was launched. Hence, it will not co
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…entrepreneurs Geoff Sheerin, Dan McKibbon and Chris Corke. The project's objective was to take the first civilians into space, on a vertical fully reusable sub-orbital spaceflight reaching an altitude of 112 km. Canadian Arrow was considered one of the top three candidates for the X-Prize competition, along with Scaled Composites…
Science and Mechanics cover of November 1931, showing a proposed sub-orbital spaceship that would reach an altitude 700 miles (1,100 km) on its one-hour trip from Berlin to New York.
The X-15 (1958–1968) was launched to an altitude of 13.7 km by a B-52 mothership, lifted itself to approximately 100 km, and then glided to the ground.