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    The VSS Enterprise crash occurred on October 31, 2014, when the VSS Enterprise, a SpaceShipTwo experimental spaceflight test vehicle operated by Virgin...
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    VSS Enterprise (tail number: N339SS) was the first SpaceShipTwo (SS2) spaceplane, built by Scaled Composites for Virgin Galactic. As of 2004, it was planned...
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    Alsbury were piloting the SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise on flight PF04, when the craft came apart in mid-air and then crashed, killing Alsbury and injuring Siebold...
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    commenced thereafter. VSS Unity is the second SpaceShipTwo to be completed; the first, VSS Enterprise, was destroyed in a crash in late October 2014....
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    2014, during a test flight, the first SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise broke up in flight and crashed in the Mojave desert. A preliminary investigation suggested...
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    American commercial astronaut (31 October 2014), prior to death in VSS Enterprise crash "@ChavesRGB Here I am. A hug, with love from your friend: Chespirito...
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  • years, and then delayed again, primarily due to the October 2014 crash of VSS Enterprise. The company did the early work on the satellite launch development...
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    house" episode. Branson is a Star Trek fan and named his new spaceship VSS Enterprise in honour of the Star Trek spaceships, and in 2006, reportedly offered...
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  • Mayday, known as Air Crash Investigation(s) outside of the United States and Canada and also known as Mayday: Air Disaster (The Weather Channel) or Air...
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  • VSS Imagine (Virgin Space Ship Imagine), is a SpaceShip III class suborbital rocket-powered crewed spaceplane. It is the first SpaceShip III to be built...
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    Galactic 06 was a crewed sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity, which launched on 26 January 2024. It was the sixth commercial spaceflight...
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    2014, during test flight PF04 of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise. Michael was born to Rich and Linda Alsbury in Santa Clara, California...
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    Galactic Unity 22 was a sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity which launched on 11 July 2021. The crew consisted of pilots David...
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  • Galactic 05 was a crewed sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity, which launched on 2 November 2023. It was the fifth commercial spaceflight...
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  • 02 (G02) was a crewed sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity, launched on 10 August 2023. It was the second commercial spaceflight...
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    took place on 25 May 2023. The flight used their SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity. The crew consisted of six Virgin Galactic employees. Unity 25 was...
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  • is an upcoming crewed sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity, which is expected to launch in June 2024. It will be the final launch...
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    commercial operations. On December 13, 2018, he reached outer space with the VSS Unity according to America's definition of the space border. Wikimedia Commons...
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    Galactic 04 was a crewed sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity, which launched on 6 October 2023. It was the fourth commercial spaceflight...
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  • Spaceport Sweden Accidents and incidents 2007 explosion 2014 VSS Enterprise crash Spaceflight VSS Unity VP-03 VF-01 Unity 21 Unity 22 Unity 25 Galactic 01...
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  • 03 (G03) was a crewed sub-orbital spaceflight of the SpaceShipTwo-class VSS Unity, launched on 8 September 2023. It was the third commercial spaceflight...
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    hired as a test pilot in 2009. The first instance of SpaceShipTwo, the VSS Enterprise, made its first flight in 2010; Stucky piloted several test flights...
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    September 2016. Jackie Wattles (20 June 2016). "Blue Origin successfully crash tests space-tourism capsule". CNN Money. Archived from the original on 8...
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    2014, during a test flight, the first SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise broke up in flight and crashed in the Mojave desert. A preliminary investigation suggested...
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  • the name shown in stylized font as "SPACESHIP 3". The first Spaceship III, VSS Imagine, was rolled out on 30 March 2021. On that occasion, it was indicated...
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    approximately US$2.9 million. The inflight breakup and crash of the first SpaceShipTwo vehicle—VSS Enterprise—in October 2014 raised questions about the future...
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    first woman to make a spaceflight on a commercially launched vehicle, the VSS Unity VF-01 flight of 22 February 2019. She was also part of the six-member...
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    deployment of the feathering system was responsible for the 2014 VSS Enterprise crash, in which the aircraft disintegrated, killing the co-pilot. The feathered...
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    Spaceport Sweden Accidents and incidents 2007 explosion 2014 VSS Enterprise crash Spaceflight VSS Unity VP-03 VF-01 Unity 21 Unity 22 Unity 25 Galactic 01...
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    Spaceport Sweden Accidents and incidents 2007 explosion 2014 VSS Enterprise crash Spaceflight VSS Unity VP-03 VF-01 Unity 21 Unity 22 Unity 25 Galactic 01...
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