The fatal breakup and crash of Virgin Galactic’s first SpaceShipTwo space plane last year was caused by a co-pilot error, as well as the failure of the spacecraft’s builders to anticipate such a catastrophic mistake, federal safety investigators say.
SpaceShipTwo crashed in October when co-pilot Michael Alsbury unlocked the commercial space plane’s re-entry “feathering” system too early during a test flight over California’s Mojave Desert, investigators with the NationalTransportation Safety Board said in a hearing today (July 28). (via space.com)
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