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New book reveals flaw in Virgin Galactic spacecraft test

New book reveals flaw in Virgin Galactic spacecraft test
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Space Accidents Fast Facts

Space Accidents Fast Facts Here’s a look at space accidents that have affected astronauts or other staff related to spaceflight. Accidents that involved unmanned spacecraft are not included. Timeline October 24, 1960 – The first space-related fatalities occur when a rocket explodes at the Soviet Union’s Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, killing 165 people, including Air Marshal Mitrofan I. Nedelin, the head of Soviet rocket forces. The accident is officially denied until 1990. March 23, 1961 – Russian cosmonaut Valentin Bondarenko is killed during a routine training exercise. Bondarenko is in a pressure chamber for an eight-day routine isolation test when he discards a cotton ball used to swab a sensor on his body. The cotton ball hits a hot plate used for cooking and catches fire in the oxygen-rich atmosphere. The fire isn’t revealed to the public until 25 years later.

17 December 2003: the first powered flight of SpaceShipOne

Madame Guzman didn t get her chat with aliens when she announced the Guzman Prize 115 years ago today. Despite offering a 100,000 franc reward, nobody could come up with the technology to communicate with distant worlds. (Mars didn t count it was deemed too easy.)But in some ways, the Ansari X Prize was its successor. Unveiled in May 1996, the $2.5m prize (which grew to $10m) would be awarded to anyone who could design and build a reliable, reusable, privately-financed, manned spaceship capable of carrying three people to 100 kilometres above the Earth s surface twice within two weeks . The idea was to prove that private space travel (ie, non-government funded) was not only possible, but profitable. Twenty-five teams threw their hats into the ring, including four from Britain the most represented county after the United States.

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