NTSB Is Wrapping Up Its On-Site Investigation Into SpaceShipTwo Accident
As the NTSB prepares to wrap up the initial onsite investigation of the accident involving SpaceShipTwo last Friday, Virgin Galactic released a statement thanking those who have shown support over the past several days, and that has a hint of the company's future.
Mission Planned For Early November From White Sands In New Mexico
A sounding rocket outfitted with technology to gather 1,500 images of the sun over its five-minute mission is preparing to launch in early November 2014. Capturing five images per second, the RAISE mission will focus in on the split-second changes that occur near active regions on the sun – areas of intense and complex magnetic fields that can give birth to giant eruptions on the sun that shoot energy and particles out in all directions.
In a statement posted on the Virgin Galactic website Sunday, the company says that the public will need to be patient in learning what caused Friday's catastrophic anomaly that caused SpaceShipTwo to break up over the Mojave Desert during a powered test flight.
A memorial fund established in memory of Mike Alsbury, who was fatally injured when SpaceShipTwo apparently broke up during a test flight over the Mojave Desert Friday raised over $38,000 in the first day it was posted online.
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