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Experts are studying the wreckage SpaceShipTwo
Experts are studying the wreckage SpaceShipTwo company Virgin Galactic. California, 2 November 2014.
This is the second setback space Americans per week. First booster Antares space truck with Cygnus, which was to take more than two tons of cargo to the ISS, exploded at the start at the Baikonur Vallops in Virginia.
The second tragedy occurred October 31, 2014, shortly after separating from the carrier spacecraft platform. The reason for the collapse of the company Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo while not exactly known.
The wreckage of the ship SpaceShipTwo, California, 2 November 2014.
One pilot was killed, the other managed to eject, but suffered serious injuries. The wreckage of the ship fell into the American zone in the Mojave Desert, which is called the graveyard of aircraft.
Fall SpaceShipTwo.
National Directorate of Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in many counts in the conquest of space and refusal to use Russian spacecraft to private companies that own, though not without the help of the government, engaged in the development and design of spacecraft.
Investigators collected debris spacecraft SpaceShipTwo, California, 2 November 2014.
Various details of the wreckage of the ship SpaceShipTwo, California, November 2, 2014.
Since 2009, the company Virgin Galactic already sold 700 tickets cost from $ 200 thousand each. Among wished to fly among the stars present and Hollywood stars Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Tom Hanks and Ashton Kutcher. After the collapse of the compensation for the actors have not yet been accessed.
"Commercial space program - not an easy thing, but I promise that we izvlechёm lesson from their mistakes and we move on," - said Richard Branson, CEO Virgin Galactic.
From the fact that the commercial aerospace - a tricky business, one can not disagree. And the head of the company Virgin Galactic is optimistic, and sure that the project is feasible space tourism. He also assured the future space tourists, which will be the first to fly on SpaceShipTwo into space. Richard Branson is confident in the safety of space flights.
Hangar company Virgin Galactic in the Mojave Desert, California, November 2, 2014.
Nevertheless, the risks of businessmen at space exploration quite different than that of the state. How to count the same Richard Branson agency NASA lost in various emergency situations around 3% of its astronauts. Space as a private trader can not lose a single customer.
Parts ship SpaceShipTwo company Virgin Galactic, California, 2 November 2014.
Experts talked about the difficult future of commercial space exploration. While only a successful electric vehicle maker Tesla, the genius Elon Musk - his ship Dragon has successfully delivered cargo to the ISS. But before that, and he had a series of failures.
Flags mark all found fragments of the crashed spaceship.
Then all the found fragments spread out in separate packages. Perhaps they will help identify the cause of the disaster.
Wreckage SpaceShipTwo company Virgin Galactic. California, 2 November 2014.
Part of the wing SpaceShipTwo.
California, November 2, 2014. Wreckage SpaceShipTwo company Virgin Galactic.
Source: loveopium.ru