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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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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MOJAVE Calif. (Reuters) - The hangar that housed Virgin Galactic's ill-fated SpaceShipTwo has an empty space, but at a manufacturing plant just down the road technicians on Wednesday were back at work ...

MOJAVE Calif. (Reuters) - The probe of Virgin Galactic’s space plane crash in California hinges on a central mystery: Why a seasoned test pilot would prematurely unlock the craft's moveable tail ...

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 ...

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has crashed after what the company described as an "in-flight anomaly" during a powered test flight. According to the Associated Press, the California Highway Patrol has ...