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...
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...
01 December 2014
Rosetta comet success SpaceShipTwo
After an unplanned 30-minute bounce as it landed on the surface of Comet 67P, Philae, the little 100kg sub-probe to ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft, finally settled down to transmit information and photos on 12 November 2014. It had landed 1 km off target ...
01 December 2014
SpaceShipTwo lost
Manufactured by Scaled Composites at its Mojave, California base, a SpaceShip -Two rocketplane crashed during a test flight on 31 October 2014 , with the tragic death of co-pilot Michael Alsbury. While pilot Peter Siebold escaped by parachute with ...
15 April 2019
Stratolaunch completes maiden flight successfully
... prize, the craft was immediately retired from active service. Stratolaunch follows a similar principle to Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, the world’s first passenger carrying spaceship to be built by a private company, in that it takes off and lands...
