SpaceShipTwo, intended for Sir Richard Branson's ambitious space tourism project, was carrying out a test flight over California's Mojave Desert when a "serious anomaly" occured, the company said.

For more, KPCC's Ben Bergman talks to the Wall Street Journal’s Andy Pasztor, who has been covering the story. It may take a full year to know what happened when Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo crashed ...

Today, SpaceShipTwo completed its first powered test since the horrific crash in 2014 that killed one of its pilots. The craft, VSS Unity, took off from Mojave Air and Space Port aboard a plane called ...

Virgin Galactic has unveiled a new spaceship just over year after that craft’s predecessor crashed during a test flight, killing one of its two pilots. The Long Beach company unveiled the new ship, ...

On Friday the experimental spacecraft SpaceShipTwo crashed into the California desert, killing one of its pilots and seriously injuring the other. Over the weekend more information began to roll out ...

The crash of the Virgin Galactic spacecraft that killed one pilot and injured another scattered wreckage across a large area of the Mojave desert, but it also clearly rattled the "small" community of ...

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Richard Branson has said that he will offer his support to those affected by the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo crash in California. One crew member was killed and another was injured today (October 31) ...

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo craft crashed Friday after getting into difficulties during a test flight over California and the fate of two pilots is unknown, the company said "During the test, the ...

Today one test pilot died when Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashed in the Mojave desert. A second pilot was evacuated to a hospital. It's not clear why the crash occurred. SpaceShipTwo had been ...