30 July 2015
SpaceShipTwo crash: dramatic testimony by Peter Siebold could offer new clues for space tourism safety
... detail by the pilot who survived it. It can also offer us a valuable look at improving overall safety. When the SpaceShipTwo rocket failure happened over California last year, it was deemed to be a major setback for the space tourism...
February 2016
The Benefits of a British Spaceport
...ranging from air launch vehicles such as Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo to ground launch types embracing space tourist vehicles like... other. Among the first of the new crop is SpaceShipTwo, carried aloft on a WhiteKnightTwo turbo fan powered aircraft ...
October 2015
Houston, we have a Spaceport
...Virgin Galactic’s White Knight Two aircraft carrying the SpaceShipTwo vehicle. The operator’s license makes the Houston ...Virgin Galactic’s White Knight Two aircraft carrying the SpaceShipTwo vehicle. Horizontal landings are also possible. To this...
May 2019
A matter of perspective
... the strong performative aspect of my art. serious anomaly (2015) - on 31 October 2014, Virgin Galactic’s suborbital spaceplane SpaceShipTwo crashed during a test flight in the Mojave Desert, California, killing co-pilot Michael Alsbury and seriously...
03 October 2021
Test Gods - Tragedy and Triumph in the New Space Race
...by Mark Stucky in one of the early tests of SpaceShipTwo, but the story becomes especially voyeuristic when Stucky asks the... ‘pilot error’, in 2014, that destroyed the first SpaceShipTwo when the wing feathering mechanism was released at the wrong...
August 2016
National legislation provides incentives for private business
... conditions for space operators as they ease the potential financial (including insurance) burdens. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo craft alongside the signature feature of Spaceport America, the Gateway to Space building, which serves as a hangar...
