This Article is From Nov 01, 2014

One Dead, One Injured in Virgin Spaceship Crash: Police

One Dead, One Injured in Virgin Spaceship Crash: Police

This image from video by KABC TV Los Angeles shows wreckage of what is believed to be SpaceShipTwo in Southern California's Mojave Desert. (Associated Press)

Los Angeles: One pilot was killed and another seriously injured when a Virgin Galactic spaceship crashed in the desert on Friday, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol said.

The injured pilot was taken to hospital, the spokesman told AFP after the accident that left debris from the commercial edge-of-space craft scattered across the desert near Mojave.

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