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The VSS Enterprise crash occurred on October 31, 2014, when the VSS Enterprise, a SpaceShipTwo experimental spaceflight test vehicle operated by Virgin Galactic, suffered a catastrophic in-flight breakup during a test flight and crashed in the Mojave Desert near Cantil, California.
The Scaled Composites Model 316, [2] known as SpaceShipOne, was a spaceplane designed to: . Carry three humans (one of them a pilot) in a sea-level pressurized cabin.; Be propelled by rocket from an altitude of 15 km (9.3 mi) to in excess of 100 km (62 mi).
The Soyuz 1 crash site coordinates are , 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) west of Karabutak, Province of Orenburg in the Russian Federation, about 275 kilometers (171 mi; 148 nmi) east-southeast of Orenburg. In a small park on the side of the road is a memorial monument: a black column with a bust of Komarov at the top.
VSS Enterprise (tail number: N339SS [1]) was the first SpaceShipTwo (SS2) spaceplane, built by Scaled Composites for Virgin Galactic.As of 2004, it was planned to be the first of five commercial suborbital SS2 spacecraft planned by Virgin Galactic.
On 31 October 2014, SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise suffered an in-flight breakup during a powered flight test, [72] [73] resulting in a crash killing one pilot, Michael Alsbury, and injuring the other. [ 10 ] [ 17 ] It was coincidentally the first flight to use the new type of fuel, based on nylon plastic grains.
The craft broke up in-flight, resulting in a total loss of VSS Enterprise, which crashed in the California Mojave Desert. Alsbury was unable to exit the spacecraft, and his remains were found still strapped to his seat in the fuselage. The pilot, Peter Siebold, survived. [3] It was the ninth time that Alsbury had flown aboard the aircraft. [5]
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Melvill reviews the first private space flight with Scott Crossfield. As of January, 2020, Melvill is the sole or joint holder of ten FAI aviation world records in various categories. [9] He was awarded the Iven C. Kincheloe Award in 1999 for high altitude, developmental flight-testing of the model 281 Proteus aircraft. [6]