Cause of Fatal Virgin Galactic Crash a Mystery to Designers

Found on ABC News on Friday, 31 October 2014
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The crash of the Virgin Galactic spacecraft that killed one pilot and injured another scattered wreckage across a large area of the Mojave desert, but it also clearly rattled the “small” community of test pilots and technicians in the field.

The craft dubbed SpaceShipTwo was destroyed after it separated from its mother ship, White Knight Two, the company said.

First Antares from Orbital Sciences, now SpaceShipTwo from Virgin Galactic; all in one week. Not only did the USA land on the moon when they were at a lower technolgy level; the market always told people how much better private companies are when it comes to getting something done.