CHP: 1 dead, 1 injured in SpaceShipTwo flight failure - CNN.com
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One person died and another was seriously injured as a result of Friday's incident involving Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, California Highway Patrol Officer Jesse Borne said. [Breaking news update posted at 2:50 p.m. ET] A "serious anomaly" resulted in the "loss" of SpaceShipTwo during a test flight Friday, and the status of the pilots isn't known, Virgin Galactic said on Twitter. "We will work closely with relevant authorities to determine the cause of this accident," the company said on Twitter. [Previous story posted at 2:42 p.m. ET] Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo experienced "an in-flight anomaly" during a test flight Friday, the company said on Twitter. Details about the anomaly weren't immediately released. Virgin Galactic has planned for years to sell trips in which SpaceShipTwo transports passengers about 62 miles above Earth -- the beginning of outer space -- and let them experience a few minutes of weightlessness before returning to ground. Friday's test flight began in Mojave, California, the company said. It's the second incident in a week involving the commercial space industry. On Tuesday, an unmanned Antares rocket exploded just after takeoff off the coast of Virginia. Controllers deliberately destroyed the craft after it became apparent there was a problem, a spokesman for Orbital Sciences Corporation said Thursday. |