They are among more than 20 privately financed teams eyeing a US$10 million prize for sending three people to space

TORONTO - A Canadian team of aspiring astronauts has set an Oct 2 launch date for the country's first manned spaceship, as it tries to win a US$10 million (S$17.3 million) prize set up to spur commercial space travel.

Unveiling an unfinished version of its rocket, the Wild Fire, at a former air force base in Toronto on Thursday, the da Vinci Project said the craft will launch from the small town of Kindersley in the western province of Saskatchewan.

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