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Virgin Galactic's Spaceship Two down

  • 31-10-2014 6:50pm
    #1
    bnt
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    BBC are reporting an in-flight anomaly, while The Guardian is reporting it's crashed. News still coming in ...

    edit: AP on Twitter: "BREAKING: California Highway Patrol reports 1 fatality, 1 major injury after SpaceShipTwo accident."

    :(

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

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  • #2
    Penny Tration
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    Mirror reporting one feared dead.


  • #3
    bnt
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    More details and a statement on Spaceflight Now:
    Virgin Galactic’s partner Scaled Composites conducted a powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo earlier today, the company said in a statement. “During the test, the vehicle suffered a serious anomaly resulting in the loss of the vehicle. The WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft landed safely. Our first concern in the status of the pilots, which is unknown at this time. We will work closely with relevant authorities to determine the cause of this accident and provide updates as soon as we are able to do so.

    (merge threads?)

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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