The first commercial rocket to blast off from Canadian soil doesn’t look like much. Article content

Less than five metres tall — not even as tall as a two-storey house — the rocket, dubbed Taiga by its Canadian makers at Nordspace, will lift off from a scrubby corner of coastal Newfoundland, just outside the small town of St. Lawrence, about 350 km southwest of St. John’s. Its maiden voyage is expected to last about a minute, and it won’t even reach orbit. Article content

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Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield calls that a good start.

“I’m really impressed with the way that Nordspace is going about their business,” Hadfield said in an interview with National Post. “Not just building rockets, but also building a launch centre, a launch site, and working

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