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ROCKET SCIENCE Space tourist launch plane damaged Mojave, Calif. (UPI) Aug 20, 2010
Officials with Scaled Composites, the Mojave, Calif., company that built the twin-fuselage carrier plane, said a mechanical problem with the left main landing gear on the Virgin Galactic WhiteKnightTwo jet caused the "minor incident," SPACE.com reported Friday. Inspectors from the Federal Aviation Administration examined the plane after the Thursday landing in which no injuries were reported. "Two FAA inspectors were on scene to examine the aircraft," Ian Gregor, a spokesman for the FAA, said. "The left main landing gear was damaged. This appears at this time to be an incident and not an accident." The runway incident did not involve Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, the suborbital passenger-carrying spacecraft that will be carried into launch position at about 50,000 feet by WhiteKnightTwo. The landing came at the end of the plane's 37th test flight. WhiteKnightTwo has been flying since December 2008. Social Networking Tools Read this article Space tourist launch plane damaged in a rich web media version at ROCKET SCIENCE Email This Article or add it to your favorite Social Network del.icio.us - Digg - Reddit - YahooMyWeb - Google - Facebook  ROCKET SCIENCE Argentina plans to join Space Age Buenos Aires (UPI) Aug 16, 2010 Argentina is developing satellite-launching capability with the hope of garnering some of the new business currently going to China. Several of Argentina's neighbors are in the process of launching satellites with Chinese help, and others are actively considering an early entry into the Space Age. Although Argentina, too, has signed up for space cooperation with China, officials said th ... read more |
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