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NTSB Investigative Update on Crash of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo November 12 The National Transportation Safety Board issued an investigative update today into the crash of SpaceShip Two on Oct. 31, 2014, in Mojave, Calif. The on-scene portion of the investigation into the crash of...

Seibold is home from the hospital. Goggle latest news for him and you get an interesting interview with him and his father. He blacked out from the altitude and came to decending on his chute. The launch plane circled him and he was alert enough to give them a thumbs up. Incredible story...

That was my point. Mission success depends entirely on a human to flip a switch within a 7 second period of time when they are pinned back in the seat of a rocket powered vehicle under power. What does that pilot watch to determine when to flip the non-fatal/fatal switch, a speed indicator. I...

From an interview with the Scaled production head: "Pivoting the tail section for descent increases the ship's surface area so that it can safely and effortlessly re-enter Earth's atmosphere, flying like a badminton shuttlecock. It had been used dozens of times during SpaceShipTwo's...

The correction on the statement of the co-pilot appears as a text statement after the briefing and the Q&A. the You Tube video of a previous launch shows the feather movement to take a about 3-4 seconds to fully articulate.

At the end of the briefing, they ran a correction that said "the co-pilot seated in the right seat actuated the lock/unlock lever. And that the co-pilot did not survive the crash." So I think the NTSB confused themself and they in fact do know who unlock the feather. Does anyone know if the...

If you watch the 3rd powered test video on Youtube, you see it all happens really fast from drop to fire to enginer cutoff. But then they coast for probably 10 seconds before feathering happens as they begin decent. I also don't follow why you would arm the feathers during burn? Perhaps...