11.01.2014

Not a good day for the space tourism industry

Virgin Galactic spaceship crashes in desert during test flight, killing one: authorities - NY Daily News

"Branson’s fledgling spaceline, which brands itself as having the world's first commercial rocket-plane, attributed the tragedy to an 'in-flight anomaly,' according to a company tweet."

And really? A company tweet? 

This is the second big rocket blow-up of the week: Last Tuesday, an Orbital Sciences Corporation rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station got vaporized (intentionally) off Virginia

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