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Space Ship Two crashes, one dead.
October 31, 2014 at 3:16 pm
http://www.turnto23.com/news/local-news/...aly-103114
MOJAVE, Calif. - Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashed Friday morning during a test flight at Mojave Air and Spaceport.
Officials with the California Highway Patrol confirmed that one of the pilots died in the crash and the second pilot is currently listed with major injuries.
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RE: Space Ship Two crashes, one dead.
October 31, 2014 at 3:59 pm
That's a real shame.
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RE: Space Ship Two crashes, one dead.
October 31, 2014 at 10:05 pm
Been a bad week for private space ventures.
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RE: Space Ship Two crashes, one dead.
October 31, 2014 at 10:15 pm
Yeah, that's true. I mean, I kind of support it, because maybe that means NASA has less to spends on. Apparently they will send a man to orbit again in 2017, but I'll be curious to see if these two events slow things down. I do enjoy watching launches on the web, but don't want people dying for it.
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RE: Space Ship Two crashes, one dead.
October 31, 2014 at 10:46 pm
To be honest, it doesn't surprise me. How many manned NASA spaceships have experienced serious problems or crashes? Remember Space Shuttle Columbia? The biggest tragedy of that crash was that the mission was so stupid and unnecessary in the first place.
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October 31, 2014 at 11:14 pm
Spaceship 2 is solely for the tourist trade. Folks that want to go up 100 kilometers, experience 5 minutes of zero G, and speeds of Mach 3.
Shame there was a fatality.
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RE: Space Ship Two crashes, one dead.
November 1, 2014 at 1:57 am
Yes I understand that, the ship itself never actually leaves the atmosphere. But it still has to be propelled extremely far from the Earth's surface in order to experience weightlessness.
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RE: Space Ship Two crashes, one dead.
November 1, 2014 at 2:04 am
(October 31, 2014 at 10:46 pm)Aractus Wrote: To be honest, it doesn't surprise me. How many manned NASA spaceships have experienced serious problems or crashes? Remember Space Shuttle Columbia? The biggest tragedy of that crash was that the mission was so stupid and unnecessary in the first place.
Not to mention Apollo 1 and Challenger.
Spaceflight, even near-space, is an extremely dangerous enterprise. I don't see how it can be otherwise so long as we have manned capsules sitting on top of hundreds of thousands of pounds of oxidizer and fuel.
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RE: Space Ship Two crashes, one dead.
November 1, 2014 at 11:42 am
It's very sad, but this was bound to happen with any new technology like this. If we get it to work, horizontally launched spacecraft should be far more efficient than crude rockets.
Yes, at the moment it's just a "rich mans toy" but so was the internal combustion engine in the early 1900's
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RE: Space Ship Two crashes, one dead.
November 1, 2014 at 12:02 pm
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(November 1, 2014 at 2:04 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (October 31, 2014 at 10:46 pm)Aractus Wrote: To be honest, it doesn't surprise me. How many manned NASA spaceships have experienced serious problems or crashes? Remember Space Shuttle Columbia? The biggest tragedy of that crash was that the mission was so stupid and unnecessary in the first place.
Not to mention Apollo 1 and Challenger.
Spaceflight, even near-space, is an extremely dangerous enterprise. I don't see how it can be otherwise so long as we have manned capsules sitting on top of hundreds of thousands of pounds of oxidizer and fuel.
We don't know if this crash is in anyway space related. If the 747 carrying the shuttle crashes, that's not because space flight is a dangerous enterprise.
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