The new SpaceShipTwo replaces the one that broke apart during a fatal crash in 2014. We’re updating live from Mojave, California.
On October 31, 2014, Virgin Galactic’s race to be the first company to take largely-untrained tourists to space took a calamitous detour when its SpaceShipTwo exploded in mid-air and then crashed in the Mojave Desert during a test flight, killing the copilot and seriously injuring the pilot.
