SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF21
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Aug. 7, 2012, noon
Instantaneous launch window.
Launch Window
Aug. 7, 2012, noon - Aug. 7, 2012, noon
Instantaneous launch window.
Aug. 7, 2012, noon - Aug. 7, 2012, noon
Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.
The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is an air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. It is manufactured by The Spaceship Company, a California-based company owned by Virgin Galactic.
VSS Enterprise was the first SpaceShipTwo (SS2) spaceplane, built by Scaled Composites for Virgin Galactic. As of 2004, it was planned to be the first of five commercial suborbital SS2 spacecraft planned by Virgin Galactic. Enterprise was destroyed during a powered test flight on 31 October 2014, killing one pilot, Michael Alsbury, and seriously injuring another, Peter Siebold. An investigation revealed the accident was caused by premature deployment of the "feathering" system, the ship's descent device; the NTSB also faulted the spacecraft's design for lacking fail-safe mechanisms that could have deterred or prevented early deployment.
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