Virgin Galactic has been working hard on promoting and perfecting future space tourism. Today, their partner, Scaled Composites, did a rocket-powered test flight of Space Ship Two.
#SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo earlier today. Both are airborne now. Photo: Scaled Composites / Jason DiVenere pic.twitter.com/QCTyBZesBW
— Virgin Galactic (@virgingalactic) October 31, 2014
This flight did not go as planned.
#SpaceShipTwo has experienced an in-flight anomaly. Additional info and statement forthcoming.
— Virgin Galactic (@virgingalactic) October 31, 2014
BREAKING: Witness reports SpaceShipTwo exploded in flight after ignition of rocket, crashed in desert.
— The Associated Press (@AP) October 31, 2014
The experimental plane, which Virgin Galactic says was on its 35th free-flying flight, has crashed into the Mojave Desert in California.
Virgin logo clearly seen on SpaceShipTwo wreckage in desert, via @23abcnews live video pic.twitter.com/QjaXVyDpcJ
— Jon Passantino (@passantino) October 31, 2014
There were two pilots aboard. According to California Highway Patrol, one pilot is dead, and one is seriously injured.
Saw on of crash sites. Body still in seat.
— Parabolicarc.com (@spacecom) October 31, 2014
The injured pilot has been medevaced to a hospital. Be praying for that pilot.
Updates as we learn more news.
UPDATE:
Joel Glenn Brenner, a former reporter for the Washington Post and friend to the pilot who died (who is still not identified), is furious with Virgin Galactic.
Fmr WaPo Reporter Joel Glenn Brenner on @CNN Pilot body found not in-tact, still strapped in, no hope of saving him. #VirginCrashUncut
— The Morgan Post (@TheMorganPost) October 31, 2014
And she told CNN why.
Another Halloween is finally here, and while we’re out collecting goodies with our kiddos, carving pumpkins, and handing out sweets to trick-or-treaters in scary masks and playful…
This morning the Fox News affiliate in Philadelphia broke the horrifying news of nurses abusing a 76-year old Alzheimer’s patient. Myfoxphilly reports: Two staff members at a…
A small plane, identified by the FAA as a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air, has crashed just after takeoff into a building at Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport in Kansas….
A few days ago, the Washington Post published a list of states in which one can vote without any form of ID. La Raza, the pro-illegal, pro-reconquista,…
According to The College Fix, post-birth abortion support is on the rise on campuses across the United States. These fanatical pro-aborts are so extreme that they openly…
The Washington Post asked a question: Can Democrats hold the Senate by running away from Obama — and their own records? Obama is about as popular as…
Please Joe, I am begging you. RUN!!! This would be like getting on a spaceship, flying to Mars and finding out whole planet is made of Toll…
The launch of NASA’s unmanned rocket, Antares, turned deadly after the rocket exploded upon takeoff in Virginia. The rocket was scheduled to launch yesterday, but had to…
If you ask the average American who lives outside the Midwest about Kansas, you would get descriptions of a boring, flat, windy place full of cows and…
Well, fellow voters, the games are commencing. Here we begin revving up the progressive RINO machine with the dynastic Bush family backing one of their own, Jeb…
Kaci Hickox, a nurse, is currently in quarantine in New Jersey after returning from Sierra Leone, where she was treating Ebola patients while working with Doctors Without…
The news broke Friday morning that there had been a school shooting at Marysville-Pilchuck High School in Marysville, Washington. The first hours after the shooting were full…
Everyone knows that Hillary Clinton has decided the next crown she is MUST wear is that of President of the United States right? No? Well, for those…
Are you interested in writing for Victory Girls? If you’d like to blog about politics and current events from a conservative POV, send us a writing sample here.
Recent Comments