Efforts, 60 miles high to the edge of space. Cnn aviation correspondent rene marsh joins us now. What do we know about what went wrong . Were still pulling in details about the exactly what happened. But heres what we can tell you. Ntsb have launched their go team. The National Transportation safety board . Correct. They have a team headeded in that direction to investigate. The faa is investigating this. As far as what happened, according to the faa, things went wrong at around 10 00 pacific time. That would be 1 00 our time here. They say Ground Control essentially lost contact with spaceshiptwo. We should remind folks at home that this is an experimental flight vehicle. On board were two pilots. We have the unfortunate news that one of the two people on board did not survive this. A little bit more about this vehicle, its intended as you mentioned off the top, the big picture here is to eventually take people who want to go and who can afford to go to space. Space tourism, its calle
Weightlessness of space and fly back to earth. Today during this test flight were told, and youre looking at file video, this is not today video, file video. During this test flight as the rocket was firing or the engine was firing from spaceship two something, it appears, went terribly wrong. And the vehicle came apart. On board this spaceship two, two test pilots. I was there in january when we had a test flight and we should underscore that nbc news has been a partner with Virgin Galactic documenting some of this. Anyway, back in january i met the chief pilot and pilot on board at the time and talked about how this whole thing works. The bottom line, you fly up to an altitude of 45,000 feet or so in the mother ship you see there, the whiteknight. When they get to that altitude, spate ship two drops. When it drops away from whiteknight, it fires a rocket. The goal was to accepted it up into a very low earth orbit. At that point, were talking 70,000, 75,000 feet, at this point you wou
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