A spaceship that has promised to shuttle hundreds of paying customers to space when it begins commercial flights next year experienced an "in-flight anomaly" during a test flight on Friday.
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo had taken off at 12:19 p.m. ET from Mojave, CA for what the company was calling a "Halloween treat."
But less than an hour later, the company tweeted that something had gone wrong. Reports say there were two pilots on board
Initial police reports, according to NASA watch, say that one of two pilots has been located with injuries "with moderate neck and back injuries" and that there is "quite a bit of wreckage." Stu Witt, Director of the Mojave Air and Space Port, reportedly said it has crashed. Read more...
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