Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic “Virgin Galactic, the privately-funded space company owned by Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi’s Aabar Investments PJS, today unveiled its newly completed SpaceShipTwo. The rollout […]
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Virgin Galactic Moving Forward
Whitesides Says Virgin Galactic is Undeterred at the AIAA SciTech Conference (With video of the speech), SpaceRef Business “Whitesides told the audience that while the October accident that destroyed SpaceShipTwo […]
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NTSB Posts Update on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Investigation
NTSB Investigative Update on Crash of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo “The National Transportation Safety Board issued an investigative update today into the crash of SpaceShip Two on Oct. 31, 2014, in […]
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Rising Above Tragedy – It Has Happened Before
Past Transit Tragedies Point to a Way Forward for Virgin Galactic, Smithsonian “Private spaceflight hit a large bump in the road to orbit last week, with Orbital Sciences’ rocket explosion […]
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SpaceShipTwo Update
NTSB Accident Investigation of SpaceShipTwo Could Take a Year to Complete Analysis, SpaceRef “In their last press briefing from Mojave, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released no new clues […]
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SpaceShipTwo Update
Virgin Galactic Media Update 2 November 2014 4:30 pm PT “Now is not the time for speculation. Now is the time to focus on all those affected by this tragic […]
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SpaceShipTwo Investigation Underway
Virgin Galactic pilot Todd Ericson talks with NTSB investigator Joe Sedor at the #SpaceShipTwo accident site. pic.twitter.com/mhaAjG3X1K — NTSB (@NTSB) November 2, 2014 Investigator Joe Sedor, Acting Chairman Hart and […]
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The Crew of SpaceShipTwo
Statement from Scaled Composites on SpaceShipTwo Crew “The Scaled Composites family lost a respected and devoted colleague yesterday, Michael Alsbury, who was the co-pilot for the test flight of SpaceShipTwo. […]
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SpaceShipTwo Reactions
Comments from Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic “This is a very tough time for all of us at Virgin Galactic, The Spaceship Company and Scaled Composites, and our […]
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MSNBC on SpaceShipTwo
Fatal crash deals blow to Virgin Galactic, MSNBC “Chris Hayes reports on a fatal crash during the test flight for Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, a commercial space ship designed to give […]