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Injuring the other. Richard branson, the billionaire founder of virgin, is expected to be on the scene today, too. Joining me from mojave, california, is jacob rascon. Whos expected to speak at this News Conference . Reporter as promised, the ntsb is here. Theyll probably be here for a few days. Theyre here to look into exactly what went wrong. Also expected on site today, Richard Branson himself here to be with the team and looking into what kind of a setback that will be to the program in general. Fridays test flight was the first since january. It was meant to test a new engine and full mixture, what was supposed to happen was spaceshiptwo would be carried up to about 45,000 feet and then would separate from the mothership, a rocket would then propel it even higher and it would be in suborbit before gliding back to earth. It appears what happened yesterday is that at the moment of separation, only minutes after there was some sort of explosion. One of the pilots, were told, was able
Georgia. And more, guess what, on the way. Hello again, everyone, im fredricka whitfield. Developing news on the Virgin Galactic spaceship disaster. The ntsb about to release an update about spaceship 2 coming down. This as we understand that virgin ceo Richard Branson could arrive at any moment at the crash site in california. The shasship 2 plane fell apart just two minutes after fridays launch over the Mojave Desert. One pilot was killed, the other hospitalized. Cnns Stephanie Elam is near the launch site. The second private space disaster this week. What are we learning about what happened . Any commonalities here . Reporter yeah, its very disturbing, obviously, its a very rough week for Space Exploration and these private endeavors as well, fred. What youre seeing here are the challenges of actually trying to get up to space. The plan was to take people up 62 miles above earth so that they could feel maybe for five or six minutes what its like to be weightless in the lower regions