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Yes, why? I think there was a fatal accident?
by mongol 6y ago
Yes, why? I think there was a fatal accident?
- jonsen 6y agoTwo clowns at the stick in a craft designed by a cartoonist.
- MobileVet 6y agoThis is disrespectful of both the pilots’ careers and loss of life. They both had thousands of hours of flight time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSS_Enterprise_crash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSS_Enterprise_crash
- jonsen 6y agoI’m sorry but that was my sincere conclusion at the time.
- BitwiseFool 6y agoSpaceShipOne was designed around winning the X-Prize and it was never meant to go beyond a simple suborbital flight that just barely reaches the edge of space. It's a capable spacecraft for that specific mission but the design is quite limited. It requires a carrier aircraft and it also utilizes a very complicated descent mechanism (flairing wings rather than parachutes). SpaceX started with orbital launch capability and then designed a manned vehicle afterwards. This was the critical difference.