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Virgin spaceship crashes in mid-air
Virgin Galactic\'s pioneering spacecraft designed to take tourists into space has crashed in California, killing one of the two pilots and scattering debris across the desert.
Los Angeles: Virgin Galactic's pioneering spacecraft designed to take tourists into space has crashed in California, killing one of the two pilots and scattering debris across the desert.
- Spacecraft was designed to take tourists into space
- One pilot killed
Television images showed the wreckage of SpaceShipTwo, a test vehicle that flies to the edge of space, amid brush east of Mojave, a few hours' drive northeast of Los Angeles.
The incident is second disaster involving a US spacecraft this week, after an unmanned Orbital Science rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station exploded after launch on Tuesday.
It is also a huge blow to British tycoon Richard Branson's long-held dream of offering the first passenger space flights, which have been snapped up by celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio.
Branson vowed to continue his space tourism venture despite the fatal crash of a Virgin Galactic rocket ship in the US. Investigators are on their way to the crash site, north of Los Angeles.Branson, founder of the Virgin Group and a long-time advocate of commercial space travel, said he was "shocked and saddened" but would "persevere".
Virgin had hoped to launch commercially in 2015. It has already taken more than 700 flight bookings at $250,000 (£156,000) each, with Branson pledging to travel on the first flight.
