Virgin Galactic Crash - probably puts an end to whole company

Unfortunate really but just goes to show how rocket technology hasn't really come on at all in the last 50 years or so - not surprising really when the whole principle is based on exploding a craft from the inside without damaging it!

When NASA allegedly went to the moon in the 60s/70s the Saturn V rocket had a 0% failure rate, yet 40-odd years later and we've had two in a week.

 

They'll not stop, they'll spend another 15 or so years re-planning and redesigning the rocket. If they do that then i'd expect refunds and cheaper flights to customers.

 

Yea why is that? Rocket propulsion etc hasn't advanced squat in 45 years, or car engines yet look at microchip technology mmmmmmmm or summert!

 

Car engine technology is unrecognisable from 45 years ago; higher power using less fuel emitting fewer harmful combustion products. Rocket propulsion advances were all directly the result of arms development, in an age where an all out nuclear war has becoming increasingly unlikely then funding to advance this technology has been reduced accordingly. Military hardware funding now concentrates on smaller, mobile unmanned weaponry.

 

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We don't know all the facts yet, but this appears to be the first flight with a new fuel type. Several previous tests had worked with a different fuel. The second ship is in construction now, so it could be ready with the fixes to whatever caused the crash sometime next year or early 2016.