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SpaceShipTwo crash brings down Richard Branson with it

Posted on November 15, 2014 by VM

Virgin Galactic’s commercial spaceflight program was pushed back by more than a year after the test flight of its SpaceShipTwo rocket-plane over the California desert blew up mid-air and killed one of its two pilots on October 31. Virgin Galactic had planned to … Continue reading →

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Feathering malfunction, not hyped motor, suspected in SpaceShipTwo crash

Posted on November 4, 2014 by VM

On October 31, a manned suborbital test flight broke up mid-air and crashed into the California desert, a 50,000-foot dive that left it smashed. The pilot was killed and the copilot was critically injured. The vehicle was SpaceShipTwo (SS2), owned … Continue reading →

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