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Watch Richard Branson's New Spaceship Fly Solo For The First Time
More than two years after one of its spacecrafts crashed, killing the co-pilot, Virgin Galactic sent its SpaceShipTwo back in the air this weekend for its first "glide flight."
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Many Questions Still Unanswered in Spaceship Crash
Federal accident investigators have an early sense of what went wrong before an experimental spaceship designed to carry tourists beyond the Earth's atmosphere broke apart during a test flight. But they still don't know why the craft prematurely shifted its shape prior to the deadly crash.
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Pilot Actions Being Examined in Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Crash
The untimely engagement of the tail mechanism and the possibility that pilot error was to blame were disclosed by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) late on Sunday.
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Debris From the Downed Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Found 35 Miles Away
Federal accident investigators say that tiny pieces of Virgin Galactic's experimental spaceship that broke up in flight have been found 35 miles (56 kilometers) from the main wreckage area.
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A Look at Virgin Galactic's Feathering Technology
The Virgin Galactic spaceship destroyed when it broke apart high over the Mojave Desert was designed to take tourists on a fleeting thrill ride through the lower reaches of space.
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Pilot Actions Examined in US Crash of Virgin Galactic Spacecraft
A human-factors expert will join the investigation of the fatal crash of Virgin Galactic's passenger spacecraft to study why the co-pilot prematurely unlocked a pivoting tail section of the ship during a test flight, the National Transportation Safety Board chairman said on Monday.
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Crashed Virgin Spacecraft 'Ignored' Space Safety Warnings: Expert
Virgin Galactic "ignored" repeated warnings in the years leading up to the deadly crash of its spacecraft in California, a rocket science safety expert said on Sunday, as investigators hunted for clues to the accident.
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Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Appears to Have Broken Apart in Flight
The head of the federal agency examining last week's fatal crash of a Virgin Galactic passenger spaceship during a test flight in California's Mojave Desert said on Sunday the vehicle appears to have broken apart in flight.
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Virgin Galactic 'Ignored' Space Safety Warnings: Expert
A rocket science safety expert on Sunday said Virgin Galactic "ignored" safety warnings in the years leading up to the deadly crash of its spacecraft in California, as investigators hunted for clues to accident's cause.
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Probe of Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crash May Take a Year
Authorities who carried out their first full day of investigation into a US spacecraft crash that killed one pilot and seriously injured another have said probing the incident could take a year.
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Probe of Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crash May Take A 'Year'
Authorities who on Saturday carried out their first full day of investigation into a US spacecraft crash that killed one pilot and seriously injured another said probing the incident could take a year.
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Virgin Spaceflight Crash: Richard Branson Vows to Continue Mission
Virgin's pioneering tourist-carrying spacecraft crashed on a test flight in California on Friday, killing a pilot and scattering debris across the desert -- and raising questions about the program's future.
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Virgin Crash Sets Back Space Tourism by Years: Experts
The deadly crash of Virgin Galactic's spacecraft has dealt a devastating setback to the cause of space tourism, delaying the first commercial flights to the stars by years, experts said Friday.
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One Dead, One Injured in Virgin Spaceship Crash: Police
One pilot was killed and another seriously injured when a Virgin Galactic spaceship crashed in the desert on Friday, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol said.
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Watch Richard Branson's New Spaceship Fly Solo For The First Time
More than two years after one of its spacecrafts crashed, killing the co-pilot, Virgin Galactic sent its SpaceShipTwo back in the air this weekend for its first "glide flight."
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Many Questions Still Unanswered in Spaceship Crash
Federal accident investigators have an early sense of what went wrong before an experimental spaceship designed to carry tourists beyond the Earth's atmosphere broke apart during a test flight. But they still don't know why the craft prematurely shifted its shape prior to the deadly crash.
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Pilot Actions Being Examined in Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Crash
The untimely engagement of the tail mechanism and the possibility that pilot error was to blame were disclosed by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) late on Sunday.
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Debris From the Downed Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Found 35 Miles Away
Federal accident investigators say that tiny pieces of Virgin Galactic's experimental spaceship that broke up in flight have been found 35 miles (56 kilometers) from the main wreckage area.
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A Look at Virgin Galactic's Feathering Technology
The Virgin Galactic spaceship destroyed when it broke apart high over the Mojave Desert was designed to take tourists on a fleeting thrill ride through the lower reaches of space.
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Pilot Actions Examined in US Crash of Virgin Galactic Spacecraft
A human-factors expert will join the investigation of the fatal crash of Virgin Galactic's passenger spacecraft to study why the co-pilot prematurely unlocked a pivoting tail section of the ship during a test flight, the National Transportation Safety Board chairman said on Monday.
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Crashed Virgin Spacecraft 'Ignored' Space Safety Warnings: Expert
Virgin Galactic "ignored" repeated warnings in the years leading up to the deadly crash of its spacecraft in California, a rocket science safety expert said on Sunday, as investigators hunted for clues to the accident.
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Virgin Galactic Spacecraft Appears to Have Broken Apart in Flight
The head of the federal agency examining last week's fatal crash of a Virgin Galactic passenger spaceship during a test flight in California's Mojave Desert said on Sunday the vehicle appears to have broken apart in flight.
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Virgin Galactic 'Ignored' Space Safety Warnings: Expert
A rocket science safety expert on Sunday said Virgin Galactic "ignored" safety warnings in the years leading up to the deadly crash of its spacecraft in California, as investigators hunted for clues to accident's cause.
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Probe of Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crash May Take a Year
Authorities who carried out their first full day of investigation into a US spacecraft crash that killed one pilot and seriously injured another have said probing the incident could take a year.
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Probe of Virgin Galactic Spaceship Crash May Take A 'Year'
Authorities who on Saturday carried out their first full day of investigation into a US spacecraft crash that killed one pilot and seriously injured another said probing the incident could take a year.
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Virgin Spaceflight Crash: Richard Branson Vows to Continue Mission
Virgin's pioneering tourist-carrying spacecraft crashed on a test flight in California on Friday, killing a pilot and scattering debris across the desert -- and raising questions about the program's future.
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Virgin Crash Sets Back Space Tourism by Years: Experts
The deadly crash of Virgin Galactic's spacecraft has dealt a devastating setback to the cause of space tourism, delaying the first commercial flights to the stars by years, experts said Friday.
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One Dead, One Injured in Virgin Spaceship Crash: Police
One pilot was killed and another seriously injured when a Virgin Galactic spaceship crashed in the desert on Friday, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol said.
