Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo has crashed, according to various reports.
The manned spaceship was being flown by test pilots and suffered an “in-flight anomaly” and crashed. There may have been two pilots aboard.
Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo
Tough week for space travel.
Tweet from Doug Messier, a space blogger
Update: There are reports of two debris fields and two parachutes deployed.
The company was hoping to begin commercial flights to space next year but this is the kind of thing that can shelve a project, permanently.
Update 2: A rescue crew is seen carrying someone on a stretcher to a helicopter
