JohnD
2007-Jul-28, 01:40 PM
All,
Today's UK national newspaper the Guardian has a page three lead about an explosion at the Mojave spaceport where the Virgin Galactic 'SpaceShip Two' is being developed. This is not a minor setback - three people have been killed, two are in critical conditon and one seriously injured.
See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/jul/28/spaceexploration
According to the article the explosion occurred while testing a nitrous oxide injector, without fuel, and the cause is not known as yet. Article includes an aeriel picture showing a devastated compound about 100 yards across, but I can find no 'Net based pics as yet. A fuel tanker on its side, a crushed container lorry, what may have been a brick built bunker reduced to two walls and rubble everywhere.
The Scotsman reports the return to Mojave of a distraught Burt Rutan.
See: http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1172552007
John
Today's UK national newspaper the Guardian has a page three lead about an explosion at the Mojave spaceport where the Virgin Galactic 'SpaceShip Two' is being developed. This is not a minor setback - three people have been killed, two are in critical conditon and one seriously injured.
See: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/jul/28/spaceexploration
According to the article the explosion occurred while testing a nitrous oxide injector, without fuel, and the cause is not known as yet. Article includes an aeriel picture showing a devastated compound about 100 yards across, but I can find no 'Net based pics as yet. A fuel tanker on its side, a crushed container lorry, what may have been a brick built bunker reduced to two walls and rubble everywhere.
The Scotsman reports the return to Mojave of a distraught Burt Rutan.
See: http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1172552007
John