[AR] Re: SpaceShipTwo crashes shortly after Mojave test flight

  • From: George Herbert <george.herbert@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:25:46 -0700

Just FYI this has been widely Tweeted about in realtime:

@spacecom / Doug Messier was on the ground below the test and saw it happen, 
and debris and a body on the ground.
@jeff_foust
@Rand_Simberg
...among others.

George William Herbert
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> On Oct 31, 2014, at 1:30 PM, Ian Woollard <ian.woollard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> The report I saw somewhere or other was that the engine started, stopped, 
> restarted and then exploded.
> 
> 
>> On 31 October 2014 19:18, Redacted sender JMKrell@xxxxxxx for DMARC 
>> <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> NBC stated Scaled Composites was testing the new plastic fuel to replace the 
>> HTPB.
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>>  
>> In a message dated 10/31/2014 11:50:45 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, 
>> ian.woollard@xxxxxxxxx writes:
>> http://www.kerngoldenempire.com/news/local/story/d/story/spaceshiptwo-crashes-shortly-after-mojave-test-fli/11401/64VdLqg21EWpK1vuptvTsg
>> 
>> Unfortunately, the reports so far are that there's been a fatality.
>> 
>> -- 
>> -Ian Woollard
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> 
> -- 
> -Ian Woollard 

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