SpaceShipTwo suborbital space ship crashed almost immediately after separation from the aircraft, which lifted him into the air. This was reported by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The reasons for the disaster agency has not yet named. British-made spaceship crashed in the Mojave Desert in the US territory. One of the pilots was killed, the second – seriously injured.
10 hours 10 minutes in the morning – a time when at the height of 13,700 meters ship SpaceShipTwo undocks from the carrier platform, launches its engine and explodes. On the ground, there is no damage – falling debris in the Mojave Desert, where the famous cemetery equip planes, but where is already built and the spaceport company Virgin Galactic. It is the west of the country, the nearest city – Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Observers saw only one parachute – in the pilot seriously injured. The co-pilot was killed.
“Space – the space is ill, and today for us tough day. We will provide all necessary assistance to the investigation to understand how this happened. We deal with all the difficulties. The future of these operations depends including, and from just such difficult moments, “- said the president of Virgin Galactic George Whitesides.
In flight, the pilots of Virgin Galactic experienced less glider as the engine: it fuels the new polyamide based – plastic. Prior to this experiment with rubber and nitric oxide. The purpose of all this commercial project – to make the journey into space cakewalk. As planned, the six tourists for two and a half hours have time to go into suborbital flight. Will rise to 100 kilometers from the earth, unbuckled the straps at the speed four times the speed of sound, and within six minutes will experience weightlessness. Meanwhile, investors and developers are experiencing only disappointment.
It is possible that, together with the co-owner Virgin Galactic – British billionaire Richard Branson – experiencing Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Tom Hanks and Ashton Kutcher – Hollywood stars among the seven hundred People who are already enrolled in flight. Ticket price – $ 250 thousand. But all is fair – the drafters and designers have promised yourself to go first in the first trip and only then carry tourists.
whether to return the money if he refuses to fly, say, Lady Gaga – is unknown. And if eventually burst patience Katy Perry – she also bought a ticket, and after departure flight to space taken up for six years in a row.
“Our work continues. Immediately, as soon as we found the crash site, it immediately cordoned off. Soon will come the experts from the National Transportation Safety. We are currently developing an action plan to further investigate the circumstances of the disaster, which, I believe, will take a few days, “- said the president of Scaled Composites Kevin shirts.
Richard Branson and developers still believe in the dream, though the reality of this week is different. On Tuesday in the US at the start of the carrier rocket exploded Antares, which is also owned by a private company. Experts talked about the difficult future of commercial space exploration. While only a successful electric vehicle maker Tesla Elon Musk – his ship Dragon has successfully delivered cargo to the ISS. But before that, and he had a series of failures. And the risks in business are quite different than those of the state. How to count the same Richard Branson agency NASA lost in various emergency about three percent of its astronauts. Cosmic private trader can not lose a single customer.
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