News Virgin Galactic spaceship crashes during California test flight - GoFuckYourself.com

brassmonkey · 10-31-2014, 11:59 AM

CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - A suborbital passenger spaceship being developed by Richard Branson?s Virgin Galactic crashed during a test flight on Friday at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, officials said.

Two pilots were aboard the spaceship, which was undergoing its first powered test flight since January. It was not immediately known if they were able to parachute to safety.

More than 800 people have paid or put down deposits to fly aboard the spaceship, which is carried to an altitude of about 45,000 feet and released. The spaceship then fires its rocket motor to catapult it to about 62 miles (100 km) high, giving passengers a view of the planet set against the blackness of space and a few minutes of weightlessness.

The spaceship is based on a prototype, called SpaceShipOne, which 10 years ago won the $10 million Ansari X Prize for the first privately developed manned spacecraft to fly in space.

Friday?s test was to be the spaceship?s first powered test flight since January. In May, Virgin Galactic and spaceship developer Scaled Composites, a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Corp, switched to an alternative plastic-type of fuel grain for the hybrid rocket motor.

The accident is the second this week by a U.S. space company. On Tuesday, an Orbital Sciences Antares rocket exploded 15 seconds after liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia, destroying a cargo ship bound for the International Space Station.

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clickity click · 10-31-2014, 12:03 PM

uh oh spagettio

brassmonkey · 10-31-2014, 12:13 PM

update: 1 dead after Virgin Galactic spaceship crashes during test flight

PGR · 10-31-2014, 12:15 PM

RIP

Those test pilots got some big balls

PR_Glen · 10-31-2014, 12:17 PM

why did they keep calling it an anomaly when its a crash?

HollywoodRevenue · 10-31-2014, 12:20 PM

lance bass from nsync dead?

seeandsee · 10-31-2014, 12:31 PM

No safe space visits for next 50 years, we are just technology weak

rhon23 · 10-31-2014, 12:34 PM

my brother works out in that area but not for that program

dyna mo · 10-31-2014, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by seeandsee

No safe space visits for next 50 years, we are just technology weak

drat, I was planning on visiting wehateporn and chatting over tea and strumpets.

brassmonkey · 10-31-2014, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by dyna mo

drat, I was planning on visiting wehateporn and chatting over tea and strumpets.

tang and poptarts

SilentKnight · 10-31-2014, 12:49 PM

Gravity is a harsh mistress.

beerptrol · 10-31-2014, 12:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PR_Glen

why did they keep calling it an anomaly when its a crash?

Because something happened when they fired up the rocket which then caused it to crash

SilentKnight · 10-31-2014, 12:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by beerptrol

Because something happened when they fired up the rocket which then caused it to crash

That solves that.

L-Pink · 10-31-2014, 01:10 PM

I want my deposit back.

beerptrol · 10-31-2014, 01:21 PM

brassmonkey · 10-31-2014, 01:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by L-Pink

I want my deposit back.

its safe

Rochard · 10-31-2014, 01:23 PM

Bad week for space flight huh?

brassmonkey · 10-31-2014, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Rochard

Bad week for space flight huh?

well american yeah

russia just fine

TeenCat · 10-31-2014, 02:07 PM

problem is the fuel, that is why the program is too late, they are testing it, and looks like it will be the one and only real problem for them ...

i am a big fan, r.i.p. and hope they will find sollution soon!

2MuchMark · 10-31-2014, 02:22 PM

Wow that's too bad. I hope this doesn't spell the end of Virgin Galactic.

brassmonkey · 10-31-2014, 02:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TeenCat

problem is the fuel, that is why the program is too late, they are testing it, and looks like it will be the one and only real problem for them ...

i am a big fan, r.i.p. and hope they will find sollution soon!

the technology im thinking they should never get.

OY · 10-31-2014, 04:25 PM

What is their ratio, in terms of deadly accidents and launches compared to NASA?

Comparable launches of course...

?

nico-t · 10-31-2014, 05:23 PM

please post more news about people dying

crockett · 10-31-2014, 05:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OY

What is their ratio, in terms of deadly accidents and launches compared to NASA?

Comparable launches of course...

?

NASA lost shitloads of rockets in the 50's and 60's as they worked on getting it right. Even still to this day it's a gamble.

As Buzz aldrin said when asked what he thought about when sitting atop the rocket ship.. His answer was.. "That it was built by the lowest bidder".

brassmonkey · 10-31-2014, 05:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nico-t

please post more news about people dying

its news

cant handle it? curl up and ...

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