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Space does not forgive mistakes
Today there was another accident in a private space program. US media reported SpaceShipTwo explosion and death of one of the two pilots.
SpaceShipTwo - is manned suborbital spacecraft (rocket plane) reusable.
Rocket plane carries up to 8 persons (6 + 2 passengers pilot), the start is made with the aircraft carrier. The aim is to suborbital flight at altitudes of about 100 km.
Today conducted a test trial suborbital rocket plane with the launch of Hybrid rocket (dangerous technologies, they are already in 2007 there was an explosion and the victim).
Rocket plane crashed in eastern Mojave Desert . One of the pilots could have survived parachuted.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/240888/
SpaceShipTwo - is manned suborbital spacecraft (rocket plane) reusable.
Rocket plane carries up to 8 persons (6 + 2 passengers pilot), the start is made with the aircraft carrier. The aim is to suborbital flight at altitudes of about 100 km.
Today conducted a test trial suborbital rocket plane with the launch of Hybrid rocket (dangerous technologies, they are already in 2007 there was an explosion and the victim).
Rocket plane crashed in eastern Mojave Desert . One of the pilots could have survived parachuted.
Source: geektimes.ru/post/240888/