Skift Take
The crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo is certainly a major setback for Virgin Galactic, which doesn't have a replacement rocket in the words, and space tourism generally. Knowing Richard Branson, though, this isn't the end of the story.
Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides vowed to find out the cause of the crash of its SpaceshipTwo space tourism rocket today over the southern Mojave Desert and to move forward.
Of the two tests pilots, employed by SpaceShipTwo manufacturer Scaled Composites, on board the rocket, one died and the other was sent to a hospital with "major injuries," an official said.
Scaled Composites was conducting the test and it included a new fuel formulation that had been tested numerous times on the ground," said Kevin Mickey, the president of Scaled Composites, at a press conference thi
