View Virgin Galactic Fatal Crash Background. Debris from virgin galactic's spaceshiptwo commercial space plane is seen in the mojave desert in this still from a video recorded by the national transportation safety board on nov. George whitesides, chief executive of virgin galactic, said he expected branson to arrive.
Virgin Galactic's future after fatal crash | Richard ... from i.pinimg.com Virgin galactic has completed its first powered flight since a fatal crash nearly four years, a milestone which sir richard branson said brought space 'tantalisingly close.'. Watch virgin galactic spaceflight unity 22 live today at 7:30 am pt/10:30 am et/ 3:30 pm bst. Richard branson's fledgling space tourism company virgin galactic performed a powered flight of its spacecraft today, the first since a fatal crash in 2014.
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Last year's fatal crash of virgin galactic's suborbital rocket plane has delayed the start of the company's commercial operations at least a year, prompting a change in mindset from a period of euphoria to a period of real, measurable, but tough progress as the enterprise backed by richard. Both the faa and the national transportation safety board (ntsb) are investigating, and a ntsb go team is expected to be on the ground by tomorrow morning. Sixteen months after a tragic crash during a test flight which killed a pilot, aspiring commercial spaceflight company virgin galactic unveiled its newly built spaceship, vss unity, on friday in a ceremony at the company's factory in mojave, california. Virgin galactic founder richard branson is en route to mojave.
