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SpaceShipTwo crash brings down Richard Branson with it

Nov 15, 2014 3 min read

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 on…

Feathering malfunction, not hyped motor, suspected in SpaceShipTwo crash

Nov 4, 2014 2 min read

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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 inj…