Derek Lyons wrote:
Canada has a space effort?


Damn right! And Robert A. Heinlein would approve:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Arrow
Now that, by God, I'd be willing to take my life into my hands and climb
aboard.
Because _that_ isn't some sort of pansy-ass "space tourism vehicle"...
that, by God.... is a _ROCKET SHIP_ .
If I'm going into space, I'm going into space on a souped-up V-2:
http://www.aerospaceguide.net/launch...ian_arrow.html
The way that God and Wernher von Braun intended it!
Imagine the bragging rights at a party:
"I just got back from from a flight in one of Virgin Galactic's
exoatmospheric tourism vehicles!"
"I just survived a flight into space on a _ROCKET SHIP_."
God, those babe's panties will slide down their legs like you had
covered their inner thighs with powdered graphite. ;-)

Pat