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Owner of Virgin Galactic Richard Branson has promised to clarify the causes of the disaster spacecraft SpaceShipTwo. – We will learn from mistakes – said Saturday the British billionaire before meeting with his colleagues in the Mojave Desert in California.
At the scene of the accident arrived the staff of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), who lead the investigation.
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“serious anomaly”
SpaceShipTwo spacecraft crashed on Friday in the Mojave Desert. He died the second pilot, 39-year-old Michael Alsbury, while the first, 43-year-old Peter Siebold, who managed to eject, was seriously injured.
This was the first test since January of this spacecraft including the firing of a rocket engine. The company Virgin Galactic announced only that it occurred during a test flight to the “serious anomalies”, which resulted in the loss of the ship SpaceShipTwo.
Photographer Ken Brown, who witnessed the crash said that SpaceShipTwo exploded when it was detached from the aircraft that it was the large amount. According to the disconnected from the aircraft rocket engine is started, amounting to ship into orbit, to a height of over 100 km and SpaceShipTwo returns to Earth as a glider.
Source: AP / East News / K. Brown SpaceShipTwo exploded when it was detached from the aircraft, which was on a large amount of it
date of the first commercial flight, during which passengers will have view of the planet on the background of space and a few minutes of weightlessness, repeatedly slid. Recently, it was said that it will be spring 2015 years.
Space tourism
The company Virgin Galactic, founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, has entered into an agreement this year with the Federal Board of Aviation (FAA), which is to enable the start of commercial flights with passengers on orbit. The agreement details the rules for the organization of flights in Virgin Galactic space vehicles.
At the start of such flights is expected about 800 people who paid for tickets at 250 thousand. dollars, among them Richard Branson himself, and actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks.
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