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| Subject: Major setback for escaping this shithole planet: Branson’s Virgin Galactic Spaceship crashes, kills pilot Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:08 pm | |
| Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo spacecraft has exploded during a test flight over the Mojave desert, killing one of the two pilots on board.
Onlookers reported seeing an explosion and debris from the craft.
Two pilots were onboard, and authorities confirmed one was dead, with the second being taken to hospital in Lancaster with serious injuries aboard a helicopter.
Today's test, only the fourth powered flight for SpaceShipTwo, was also used as a chance to try out a new rubber-nitrous oxide engine that burns nylon from a polyamide-based fuel grain, designed to make the ship more powerful and thus fly higher into the atmosphere.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2816224/Virgin-Galactic-spaceship-flight-problem.html#ixzz3HlMi1Qfo
Another crash could ruin the whole project! |
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