LOS ANGELES – Virgin Galactic’s pioneering spacecraft designed to take tourists into space crashed on Friday in California, killing one of the two pilots and scattering debris across the desert.Television images showed parts of SpaceShipTwo, a test vehicle flying to the edge of space, scattered amid brush in the desert east of Mojave, a few hours’ drive north-east of Los Angeles.The incident is second disaster involving a US spacecraft this week, after an unmanned Orbital Science rocket exploded on Tuesday six seconds after launch on a resupply mission to the International Space Station.It is also a huge blow to British …read more
Source: AsiaOne
