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
California Highway Patrol confirms one person is dead, one person seriously injured. The injured person, we believe to be one of the pilots but cant know that for sure because they havent told us. We believe it to be a pilot. That pilot has been taken to a nearby hospital in lancaster, and that where is there will be treatment. Does that person need surgery . We dont have disease tails. The latest word from virgin, emergency crews in california, you can see for yourself, a catastrophic event did happen. A witness on the ground tells the Associated Press it exploded just after separation and then crashed there into the desert. The broken rocket parts are littering the ground there, as you can see, and folks are going out to try to offer what assistance is possible. The spaceship designed to give tourist rides that come very close to outer space. These test flights normally have two pilots. We heard is a mentioned to you, we reported that we believed one of them did indeed eject. Is it p
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