The crash of the American spacecraft (rocket plane) "Virgin" led to the death of one of the pilots

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Spacecraft (he is a rocket glider) Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo crashed in the state of California (USA) during a test flight. with the BBC with reference to the US service reports the death of one of the pilots of the ship, the other was seriously injured and taken to one of the state hospitals.

It is reported that the explosion of the device Virgin occurred immediately after it separated from the carrier and tried to turn on its own engines. Carrier White Knight 2 while landed quite safely.

Spacecraft Development Company Virgin even before the start of active flights, I sold out several tickets to wealthy people who wanted to become regular space tourists. One such ticket, according to some, cost more than $ 10 million dollars. Among the buyers were a lot of Hollywood stars. However, immediately after the disaster, people began to demand the return of money, stating that even if a thorough investigation was conducted into the causes of the disaster, they are not going to fly into space.

Head of the company-developer Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Richard Branson stated that this catastrophe will be thoroughly investigated, the company will draw appropriate conclusions from it, after which the program VirginStarted 5 years ago, will continue.

Branson himself flew to the crash site, located in the Mojave desert area (southwest USA).

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    1. +7
      1 November 2014 10: 05
      It is good that the unit was without passengers.
      1. +13
        1 November 2014 10: 08
        So the mattress covers fell under a series of cosmic setbacks, well, not all the same, we suffer catastrophes.
        1. +45
          1 November 2014 10: 17
          Failure of disaster is strife! And what is the joy? All komenty are content. The pilot died. Just a man. And maybe he has politics on the side, which is more likely. Do not be like Dill, otherwise the result is predictable.
          1. +2
            1 November 2014 10: 29
            One dill already minus zafigachil! One second !!!!
            1. jjj
              +55
              1 November 2014 11: 19
              And I was waiting for this disaster. It turned out that some private company, practically without research, without much testing, managed to build a spaceship. There is noise in the press. Moreover, even US officials have begun talking about how they will explore space with the help of private companies.
              First, about space. This rocket plane does not go into real space. It has a ceiling of 100 kilometers. Having risen to this height, he begins to fall and weightlessness arises for several minutes. Ours arrange something like that on planes for training cosmonauts. "Virgin" does not reach any space velocity. He has no problem entering the atmosphere. It's a show but touted as a space flight. True, the price was set exactly two times less than what our people asked for when they took out rich tourists into real space into orbit. They wanted to cut it down in an easy way. But, as they say, God is not a fraer.
              Look at the Virgin rocket plane itself. It is covered in windows. This design is problematic even in the atmosphere. And then there are space velocities and loads, pressure drops. The ship was designed and calculated purely on computers, without serious systemic tests. Branson believed the computer calculates better than the test of practice. So Branson and the team were in Formula 1. It was called similarly - "Virgin". The machine was also calculated on a computer. But its aerodynamics and speed characteristics were the worst in the field. Only after Branson sold the team, it began to be called "Marusya" and the car was designed as usual, the car managed to rise from the end of the table and even managed to score points.
              All the hype with private space is a way to make money. A catastrophe in this case was only a matter of time. And so it happened. And in a few days, another private rocket exploded at launch. Space does not forgive a light commercial approach
              1. Vladimir 686
                +8
                1 November 2014 11: 40
                Space should be dealt with only by state space agencies, commercial programs are crazy. It should be a mega-corporation with a budget comparable to an average European country. China, in its space program at the level of the USSR in the 70s, simply repeats what we have already done long ago. .And then suborbital flights from an aircraft carrier. Let them buy our "Buran" and do not build a bicycle.
                1. +4
                  1 November 2014 12: 41
                  "Buran" is a full-fledged spacecraft, the same as the "Shuttle". Their purchase price did not grow.
                  1. Vladimir 686
                    +3
                    1 November 2014 14: 27
                    "Buran" was much cooler. In general, it was conceived as a suborbital bomber with a mask from the AN-225. Moreover, with control from the ground. Mattress makers still do not dream of it
                    1. 0
                      1 November 2014 16: 46
                      Buran became a continuation of the spiral space fighter project. Now the development of the MAKS project is underway, but judging by the way the government is stealing money for the construction of a new cosmodrome, it seems to me that the project will see the light of day, oh, how long it will take.
                      1. +1
                        2 November 2014 02: 05
                        Hey, "shkolota"! Stop writing nonsense.
                        Go to www.buran.ru - learn the materiel on the subject of MTKK am
                    2. 0
                      1 November 2014 21: 02
                      Don't be creative. "Buran" was, first and second, a transport system. And in many ways an unsuccessful copy of the American "shuttle".
                2. +3
                  1 November 2014 14: 04
                  Rave. While "only state space agencies should be engaged in space," you will not see "space for all", nor normal tourism, nor mining from an asteroid. A private company may well delay the development of a carrier, as well as conduct commercial launches.
                3. +3
                  1 November 2014 17: 04
                  Let them buy our "Buran" and not build a bicycle..
                  If I dreamed - we don't have a Buran - Gorbachev not only banned the flights of our Burans with the Skifs, but ordered the destruction of the documentation.
                  1. +2
                    1 November 2014 17: 33
                    I doubt it! With iron-iron, the thought is priceless. A breakthrough is not only in space, but also in many industries. For all the absurdity (I can’t find the words) of the then power, no one would let Gorbachev do this.
              2. +3
                1 November 2014 12: 32
                Not a spaceship, rather a stratospheric plane. I agree about the tests, that something was not heard, it seems this is the second flight. But apparently the rescue system is also being worked out. One is dead, the second survived.
                Actually, what's the point in this project, a pure experiment, and even "razvodilovo" for "suckers", about a ride.
                1. +2
                  1 November 2014 12: 44
                  Definitely not the second flight, at least twice he already flew.
              3. +3
                1 November 2014 12: 43
                But SpaceX’s Falcon rockets and their Dragon ship fly quite successfully, although the very first launches were unsuccessful.
                1. Vladimir 686
                  +3
                  1 November 2014 14: 34
                  quite successfully out of 4 flights, 1 catastrophe with the escaping of the cosmodrome. In the Vicious USSR, epaulettes removed generals for this and even BASHKU.
              4. +3
                1 November 2014 14: 00
                And what's wrong with private companies? The sooner the private sector deals specifically with space, the better, progress will be faster. What kind of passenger planes do you fly? Does the state build them too? And for your information, the Virgin program has been under development for 15 years, so "practically without research, without long trials" does not apply here
                1. Vladimir 686
                  +2
                  1 November 2014 14: 40
                  Yes, there’s nothing wrong. Let them indulge. Have you not understood, Dear AGAIN, CAPSOM-there the brains should be such that your mother does not cry, only the State can collect geniuses in a basket
                  1. 0
                    1 November 2014 22: 02
                    Thanks, have fun. It’s not the state that collects geniuses in a basket, but financing. Have you never heard of brain drain? Who else but Russian scientists constantly dump to the west? You can bring as many people as you like who created the company from scratch, and now they have become mega-corporations. And in the current realities, genius is needed in the singular, a small team of assistants. A computer will more than replace a group of engineers
              5. +3
                1 November 2014 20: 26
                Quote: jjj
                Space does not forgive a light commercial approach

                space, like the ocean, is not forgiven when they switch to YOU ​​with them
              6. 0
                1 November 2014 21: 57
                If a Buran or Shuttle is taken, then they are covered with ceramics like turtles and vents made of quartz glass. And this is a real divorce project negative
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          3. mazhnikof.Niko
            +4
            1 November 2014 12: 40
            Quote: devis
            The pilot died. It’s just a man. And maybe he has a politician on the side, which is more likely. Do not be like Dill, otherwise the result is predictable.


            I agree with you. It’s not good to gloat over the catastrophe of a non-military apparatus, much less! Well, not in Russian - somehow.
        2. +4
          1 November 2014 10: 36
          The most adequate comments. After that, there is nothing to say. Bravo.
        3. +6
          1 November 2014 11: 06
          Quote: Giant thought
          So the mattress covers fell under a series of cosmic setbacks, well, not all the same, we suffer catastrophes.

          The reasons are just the same: most of the funding is for the salaries of top managers, the incredible conceit of these "tops", the absence of QUALIFIED (!) Workers ...
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      3. +3
        1 November 2014 10: 37
        It is good that the unit was without passengers.
        You read the article ??? The pilot died !!! And four more put the pluses. Read the blah! I'm in shock!
        1. 0
          1 November 2014 10: 54
          For davis: are you not too worried about the stars? Companion sites to them the sea, but this one is definitely not one of them
          1. raf
            +9
            1 November 2014 11: 22
            Quote: AnpeL
            For davis: are you not too worried about the stars? Companion sites to them the sea, but this one is definitely not one of them

            He is not worried about the "stars", but about the pilot! For a man who did not bomb anyone, did not kill, but simply tested the aircraft! Do not be like the maydanutym Svidomites and rejoice at the death of people! Do not stoop to their level, do not become ostine! Live by the principle: "If my neighbor is a pig, it does not mean that I should become the same!" Otherwise, we will become like those who called the children who died in Novorosiya Colorado larvae!
            1. +6
              1 November 2014 12: 05
              Rough! You got it too? Here's an assessment of humanity! Zdeeeets !!! I'm shocked! Strep the bro!
              1. raf
                +4
                1 November 2014 12: 40
                Quote: devis
                Rough! You got it too? Here's an assessment of humanity! Zdeeeets !!! I'm shocked! Strep the bro!

                Thanks for the words of support, but I'm not at all upset! Those who made cons, apparently from that breed of people who, having seen how a person fell, will not rush to help him, but will stand by and laugh! I don’t give a damn about their opinion, I don’t respect such people! So devis I'm fine, which is what I wish for you!
                1. +5
                  1 November 2014 13: 24
                  Those who made cons, apparently from that breed of people who, having seen how a person fell, will not rush to help him, but will stand by and laugh! I don’t give a damn about their opinion, I don’t respect such people!
                  You are right about a hundred. But as a child, I want at least a little justice in life. And these "minusists" have an engraving on their foreheads (not a tattoo), "Do not fit under any circumstances" when they would need help. Here is my justice to G .... TO US! I know not humanly. But they just demand it. And one hell of a go help. Dilema!
          2. 0
            1 November 2014 11: 23
            For davis: are you not too worried about the stars?
            Do you want to say or affirm that you set the rules on this site? Free expression, opinion on this site is not appropriate? But mine is not censored.
            Anal. Pelesosa! Nick (AnpeL RU) As a person, I can only sympathize with grief but not be happy about him! Do you understand this dogma ???? Remember !!! Mom and dad raised me !!! And faith!
            1. Vladimir 686
              +10
              1 November 2014 11: 52
              We were not given the names of the heroes who flew into space in a can, this is bad. It’s just the heroes, it doesn’t matter that they are Americans. Adequate people don’t have any joy in the disaster in space.
      4. Pervusha Isaev
        +2
        1 November 2014 11: 24
        REAL FLIGHTS - this is not for you the Livnogolivutskaya movie screen ...
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      5. +1
        1 November 2014 11: 42
        it’s really good, but you know what’s bad - they started 5 years ago and now they’re already experiencing ours, they would take such a pace of work
      6. Denis fj
        +2
        1 November 2014 12: 21
        Today, a test test of the suborbital rocket plane with the launch of a hybrid rocket engine was carried out (dangerous technology, they already had an explosion in 2007 and casualties).

        The hybrid engine itself has already flown many times, and without incident (an explosion with three dead was a long time ago, during laboratory tests of the oxidizer injection system, then even without combustion and without most of the engine itself). Today, however, the first time they tested a new fuel mixture, which had not yet flown. And they write that there were many doubts among the people involved in the project about the appropriateness and safety of these tests.

        PS Space does not forgive mistakes.
        1. +2
          1 November 2014 17: 27
          The rocket exploded at the start, I drank a liter of beer, the spacecraft exploded, I drank a half liter of beer, I’m worried .....
    2. +12
      1 November 2014 10: 05
      somehow it hurts in a row they fall. to see the God of Americans for aggression punishes and warns that there are forces above. and they are not such an exceptional nation.
      Signs. Signs ...
      1. 0
        1 November 2014 11: 03
        Quote: lav67
        somehow it hurts in a row they fall. to see the God of Americans punishes and warns for aggression

        I advise Americans not to forget our popular proverb: "God loves a trinity."
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      2. 0
        1 November 2014 11: 44
        Spaceship (aka Rocket Launcher) Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo crashed in the state of California (USA) during a test flight.

        A strange coincidence - the second ship, in a week, suffers an accident and the name contains the word "two".
        1. avt
          +2
          1 November 2014 12: 59
          Quote: СРЦ П-15
          A strange coincidence - the second ship, in a week, suffers an accident and the name contains the word "two".

          request So after all, they have this ... well, a holiday in the industry - Herouin laughing
          1. typhoon7
            +5
            1 November 2014 15: 49
            Naryl on the first catastrophe of this week.
    3. +7
      1 November 2014 10: 07
      Yeah ... Black Space October for the USA.
    4. +2
      1 November 2014 10: 09
      Not the whole market is a panacea! laughing
      1. avt
        +3
        1 November 2014 11: 23
        Quote: siberalt
        Not the whole market is a panacea!

        And most importantly, at one time they invested a certain amount of money - to make the same program in Russia and even faster than in America, in the 90s they climbed the developments of "Lightning" under this sauce, slobbering "Lapot" and even made a model that They added hectares of “Pteradactyl.” Yes, it turned out to be not a horse's feed.
    5. TECHNOLOGY
      0
      1 November 2014 10: 09
      Already in technology they do not sharyat. For mattresses such concepts as "resistance" and what is more difficult, from the realm of fantasy. Who is there now in technical universities? Absolute-0!
      1. +6
        1 November 2014 10: 25
        That's just the Nobel for 90% in physics, mathematics, etc. go to America annually? Do not confuse the concept ...... geography and world history as a whole may not know, but their technical universities are cool! Another thing we have disasters happen mainly due to oversight and sloppiness ... it is (such as subunits on adhesive tape at the Glonass rocket)
        1. +5
          1 November 2014 10: 36
          Quote: FREGATENKAPITAN
          disasters happen in our country mainly due to oversight and sloppiness


          - and more theft


          I also add that in the case of Virgin (in contrast to the previous disaster), the ship is new, with new solutions that have not yet been worked out.

          New is given to everyone with great difficulty, so there is no reason for gloating

          This is not a theft of billions from the construction of the spaceport


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        2. +10
          1 November 2014 11: 00
          Frigatekapitan - if you really knew how Americans get these Nobel’s by buying Russian scientists and their work and copying it onto themselves, you would surely have changed their attitude towards them. And the pilot died, humanly sorry for him.
          1. +9
            1 November 2014 11: 16
            Quote: sv68
            Frigatekapitan - if you really knew how Americans get these Nobel’s by buying Russian scientists and their work and copying it onto themselves, you would surely have changed their attitude towards them. And the pilot died, humanly sorry for him.


            Not communication to me, but I will say the obvious -

            in Russia there is enough money to adequately pay scientists (their own and any others) and provide them with everything they need to work

            The point is small - learn how to send money where it is profitable for the country


          2. +4
            1 November 2014 13: 08
            Well, let's not look for a black cat where it does not exist ..... Mathematics, physics is not a politicized Peace Prize or Literary ...... I understand perfectly and I know how many scientists from the former USSR moved to the states, how many Indian and Chinese left ... Only everything can be easily checked purely by the names of the laureates wink
            1. saber1357
              -2
              1 November 2014 23: 59
              Come on, come on, keep working how much you were paid ... I wonder who? Ah, "frigatenkapitan" is a German word ...
        3. saber1357
          +1
          1 November 2014 23: 54
          Dude, I worked in THREE American universities for 5 years, among them was, for example, Georgia of those - one of those "cool American universities". So, the comment below will directly quote: "Frigatenkapitan - if only you really knew how Americans get these Nobel Prizes by buying Russian scientists and their work" I support all 90%.

          And the 10 percent remaining is such that you have to be extremely careful and not talk about really valuable ideas until they are published under your name. Otherwise, no one will "buy Russian scientists" - they will simply steal and publish, they will research for 10 years according to your idea (and according to the work plan, if you went and voiced it). Depending on the idea that you foolishly blurted out, in 10 years they will receive a Nobel - not you.

          The situation is typical, I spoke with dozens of our most talented guys, everyone says something like the following: "Give out ideas and work them out in portions, otherwise they will cut them ahead of time ...". Amer universities are gatherings of intriguers, which are still very far away from all our local intriguers like Gelfanda and Guriev.

          Yes, and most of the professors in the United States are vampire parasites, who are not generators of scientific ideas at all, literally HUNTING young talented guys from Russia or even countries of old Europe such as small Britain or the same Germans. Believe it or not, but work in a "cool US university" and you will feel it on your own skin, if not complete oligofffren. But such a person will not be taken there, of course.
    6. +3
      1 November 2014 10: 10
      This time, who is to blame, and what to do? One word, GOD HELMET METH.
    7. +3
      1 November 2014 10: 10
      Tests do not pass without problems. If everything goes well at once, this already raises suspicions, because then some problem will surely come out.
    8. TECHNOLOGY
      +5
      1 November 2014 10: 13
      Elementary fundamentals of sopromat.
    9. +11
      1 November 2014 10: 13
      It’s a pity for the pilot ... And let the technology develop, it’s not to carry bombs into space, but to show beautiful things to people.
    10. +7
      1 November 2014 10: 14
      The USA has gone "nepruha" in the development of near-earth space. Maybe not about sanctions and how to annoy Russia you need to think, but about something else, more significant.
    11. +2
      1 November 2014 10: 15
      unfortunate, but not all the same, our protons fall ...
    12. +4
      1 November 2014 10: 24
      Quote: Giant thought
      So the mattress covers fell under a series of cosmic setbacks, well, not all the same, we suffer catastrophes.

      It seems to me that accidents are not accidental ... After the explosion of the "Proton" on air from supposedly crookedly installed sensors, in which one could assume Indian ears, it is quite natural that sharp retaliatory measures are taken to undermine the space program of India ... We also not a bastard, as comrade Putin said - "... Do not meddle with us and do not pose as arbiters of the world's destinies."
    13. Drunya
      0
      1 November 2014 10: 24
      not so happy as the failure of the enemy !!!!!
      here it is not a pity not once.
      revenge for Vnukovo ???? what
    14. +5
      1 November 2014 10: 27
      If someone noticed, then the problems did not start with NASA, but with private companies, and somehow at once ....
      What is it for???????
    15. +4
      1 November 2014 10: 42
      Virgin spacecraft development company even before the start of active flights sold out several tickets to wealthy people who wanted to become regular space tourists. One such ticket, according to some reports, cost more than $ 10 million dollars.

      Let me correct the author.
      Tickets for space flights have already been bought by 500 people.
      When passenger flights start, each of them will last 2,5 hours at a ticket price of 200 thousand dollars.
    16. +2
      1 November 2014 10: 52
      They drop new ships where much more has not been tested and it is necessary to finish and we drop old ships where everything seems to be from work to the smallest detail
    17. +6
      1 November 2014 11: 09
      Do not interfere with politics. The news is sad. We are talking about a private independent project, which in the future promised to bring closer the whole future for all of humanity, which we all dreamed about in childhood, when we read ourselves through fantastic novels. Eternal memory to the dead pilot and a speedy recovery to the fact that he was wounded.
      1. jjj
        +3
        1 November 2014 11: 25
        This project does not bring a bright future closer for humanity, but is a way of making money, even if so unusual.
        1. 0
          1 November 2014 12: 19
          This project does not bring a bright future closer for humanity, but is a way of making money, even if so unusual.

          The first cars, too, could not afford a mere mortal.
    18. polkownik1
      +5
      1 November 2014 11: 18
      Two big differences ... The Branson apparatus is actually an aircraft that jumps in a ballistic curve into outer space for a matter of minutes. An American X-15 jumped there a long time ago. Orbiters accelerate to immeasurably high speeds, so their complexity is an order of magnitude higher in literally everything. Sorry for the common truths, but it's somehow embarrassing to see here attempts to compare "theirs and our" devices. This is a completely different technique. This does not justify our accident rate, the Branson apparatus is also not simple, but the difference is fundamental.
    19. hard
      +6
      1 November 2014 11: 21
      I see no reason for joy and fuss, a man who was educated died (the pilot of such a machine cannot be an idiot, by definition), courageous, although he represented the state (the links do not fly into space), oriented against us, his wife and children were probably left. He served his homeland - USA. The family of the deceased is condolences. But the fact that the space program does not go with the Amers, it is in our hands, any aerospace research is work on dual-use technologies, no matter how peaceful they are presented to us. Therefore, we must use any failure of the West to our advantage, analyzing the causes of their failures, so as not to step on the same rake in our programs.
      1. +3
        1 November 2014 14: 15
        hard - yes, here the majority of brains are obviously on one side, and the basis of their cormorant lies in the plane - since p_iN ___ dosov, it’s a priori like a threshing floor or something similar, and until recently, in the head of Rossssssssssmos, to unbolt the balls - I didn’t enough to petrify - UNIVERSALLY AND SEND THE PARALLELS ....
        PS A real and beautiful aircraft was destroyed, not a weak pilot died ... but they have a type of celebration in terms of gloating - that’s happiness drinks
    20. +3
      1 November 2014 11: 22
      What, "trampoline" failed?
      The pilot, of course, is a pity. The kingdom be upon him.
    21. sazhka4
      +2
      1 November 2014 11: 47
      Chinese chips ??? They do not work on the outskirts of Ukraine. Checked .. Now we are suffering.)))
    22. +2
      1 November 2014 11: 54
      Maybe engines and equipment from ukrov bought? ... recourse
    23. Vladimir 686
      +4
      1 November 2014 11: 59
      Americans need a new Werner von Braun. His head and fanaticism, maybe then they will build a new Saturn 5. The pilot has eternal memory.
      1. Starmos
        +3
        1 November 2014 12: 39
        Like us - the new Korolev ... the wild market and science are incompatible concepts. If "ours" do not understand this, Russia is not threatened with technical progress. Drive the liberal oligarchs out of power with a filthy broom, along with their "doctrines of the bazaar economy" and "modernization", which is essentially a "finishing off", "control shot in the head" of academic and applied science, production and the economy of the country as a whole.
        1. Vladimir 686
          +1
          1 November 2014 13: 45
          science and progress as a whole are driven by abnormal ki from the point of view of the layman. they don’t need the dough they need to know what’s behind the horizon. Korolev and von Braun just used the system. don’t care what they did with the products. You can kill a person with a gun, you can do holes in the board. Everything depends on the brains of the person and the sovereign who is driving a new toy.
    24. tvn
      +3
      1 November 2014 12: 08
      storming against the backdrop of the Antares disaster. top managers demand the result, the muffled performers are already on the drum, and people are dying.
    25. +4
      1 November 2014 12: 12
      It's not a secret that the most reliable and effective crew rescue system is our K-36. I think this alibabaevich - this bad Richard Branson saved on rescue equipment. Sorry for the pilots - one is generally inanimate, and the second cripple for life.
    26. Alexander
      +1
      1 November 2014 12: 38
      Here you have the whole private space!
    27. +1
      1 November 2014 12: 43
      They were also offered to fly on trampolines. No, they contacted with whom it is not clear. That’s the result.
    28. biglow
      +2
      1 November 2014 12: 48
      This is to be expected. To master complex technology without the cost of testing, and they always require large resources. And business always puts the stolen profit at the forefront. And in many areas of science and technology, this approach is not acceptable ..
      And if any catastrophe happens in a real flight, then this will lead to the private cosmonautics ...
    29. +2
      1 November 2014 13: 06
      Now you have to put a catapult for each passenger, otherwise no one will fly. And sorry, goodbye TTX products.
    30. +2
      1 November 2014 13: 09
      With Plesetsk Poplar launched. Well gone. The fewer merchants, the more successful launches.
    31. +1
      1 November 2014 13: 16
      Quote: Anton Gavrilov
      It is good that the unit was without passengers.

      But where is it? One pilot died, the second in serious condition
    32. +2
      1 November 2014 13: 21
      And our Poplar flew today and flew where necessary
      1. Vladimir 686
        +1
        1 November 2014 13: 55
        went green well. Technology of the 70s of the 20th century. 45 years we are marking time. WRITING CAPSOM_ WE ARE EATING WHAT OUR GREATNESS ANCESTORS HAVE DONE. IN ROCKET STRONGERY. For 40 years not a single great idea. Cosmos has died.
    33. +1
      1 November 2014 13: 35
      Kingdom of Heaven is for a brave man! And sleep well on the American space program!
    34. +2
      1 November 2014 13: 58
      Today, the essence of the site’s visitors has been revealed. A certain contest. I didn’t even have to troll. Of course, I have all the minuses on the drum. But on all my komenty, the minuses were beaten, the question ???, Russians ??? Brave people? Answer! It is very necessary to understand what is expected in life. To judge, by assessment, common truths and morality is strange, but then don’t yell about the fifth, sixth column. Are you the seventh column !!! I opened my eyes ???? Most likely not. But if beer without nuts, or ramming without beer stirs up the brain , all questions disappear !!! You are worthy of your future. Please do not write nonsense, write constructively and on the issue, that is. on the topic. Regards! I ask the trolls not to worry, I will endure the brain at a time.
    35. Vladimir 686
      +2
      1 November 2014 14: 10
      There is NO SPACE. HUMANITY stupidly parasitizes the giants of thought Korolev and VON BROWNE. TSIOLKOVSKY, KIBALCHICH gave mathematical calculations of orbital stations in the 20th year of the 20th century. if you get on electric cars, oil plays a wooden box. Oil consumption by the industry is full of oil. Oil is needed for the latest useless cars from Renault BMW Ferrari, etc.
    36. +3
      1 November 2014 14: 39
      That's how it was


      1. VOLKHOV
        +1
        1 November 2014 17: 32
        Good shots - on average pulsating combustion, ionization and the most likely conclusion - the design is not to blame, a natural phenomenon. American flying voltmeter, like Proton here.
        I feel sorry for the pilot, but society does not perceive thoughts separately, only with a funeral and if a ticket is purchased.
    37. 0
      1 November 2014 16: 52
      January 28, 1986, when the Challenger spacecraft at the very beginning of the STS-51L mission exploded at the 73rd second of the flight. For a long time, the Americans could not understand why the right powder accelerator exploded. And the Russians are still perplexed - well, why didn’t the left accelerator also explode?
    38. +2
      1 November 2014 17: 16
      It's a pity. This is another sacrifice, a sacrifice in the name of progress. It doesn’t matter who it is - American or Russian, it’s just an earthling.
    39. 0
      1 November 2014 17: 23
      I would look and see ....
    40. -4
      1 November 2014 18: 45
      The more they die, the less they will remain (mattresses). A woman with a cart is easier! laughing
      1. +2
        1 November 2014 20: 58
        I recalled the joke:
        Yesterday the American Shuttle was struck by lightning ... the Lightning crew was nominated for government awards :)

        that's just how you said "dead" is a pilot, not a member of the board of directors of JP Morgan (by the way, there was Chubais, now Gref http://www.business-gazeta.ru/article/85594/), and not a director of the Federal Reserve and not a ghoul from the State Department , just a guy whose wife and children were probably waiting at home ...
    41. +2
      1 November 2014 20: 52
      Sorry for Richard Branson, but predictable. Competition in this market is becoming extremely sharp, and all his life he was a bit of an adventurer (music business, balloons, high-speed ships, gyroplanes, etc.) and it seems to me that he loves adventure and drive more than money. But Musk seems to be completely different, he clearly understands what prospects private companies will have, because they will be given near space, while the state will naturally engage in distant space. Accordingly, this is all the construction of orbital bases and their supply. So the end of this next Branson's theme is already visible and "malfunctions" are natural.
    42. -1
      2 November 2014 08: 58
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      02:43
      Identified pilots of the crashed SpaceshipTwo spaceship
      Virgin Galactic SpaceshipTwo crash victims identified According to Reuters, citing the local sheriff’s office, the name of the deceased pilot is Michael Elsbury, the survivor is Peter Sibold.


      This I understand, it’s really cool. That is, anyone could control them there. The Anglo-Saxon schizoid. wassat
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      Yarik SU Today, 08:58 | The crash of the American spaceship (rocket plane) "Virgin" led to the death of one of the pilots
      RBC
      02:43
      Identified pilots of the crashed SpaceshipTwo spaceship
      Virgin Galactic SpaceshipTwo crash victims identified According to Reuters, citing the local sheriff’s office, the name of the deceased pilot is Michael Elsbury, the survivor is Peter Sibold.


      This I understand, it’s really cool. That is, anyone could control them there. The Anglo-Saxon schizoid. wassat


      And what kind of fagots minus? Read carefully: an identity is established .... somehow there were 300 Spartans there.
      Read, goat carefully.
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        2 November 2014 14: 24
        And what kind of fagots are minus? Read carefully:
        But they don’t read it. Nick didn’t like it. Everything !!! Be patient.
    44. 0
      2 November 2014 14: 18
      Quote: Sergey Sitnikov
      Kingdom of Heaven is for a brave man! And sleep well on the American space program!

      Put a minus. If their astronautics will sleep, then ours (Russian) will fall into the den. Oh, how I do not want to!
    45. 0
      2 November 2014 20: 51
      No matter how sorry the Americans are, in principle, even though everyone is killed, the idea itself is a pity. Everything that makes us closer to the stars is useful. Therefore, I sincerely wish the developers good luck in troubleshooting and implementing the project.
    46. 0
      4 November 2014 20: 26
      Quote: jjj
      And I was waiting for this disaster. It turned out that some private company, practically without research, without much testing, managed to build a spaceship. There is noise in the press. Moreover, even US officials have begun talking about how they will explore space with the help of private companies.
      First, about space. This rocket plane does not go into real space. It has a ceiling of 100 kilometers. Having risen to this height, he begins to fall and weightlessness arises for several minutes. Ours arrange something like that on planes for training cosmonauts. "Virgin" does not reach any space velocity. He has no problem entering the atmosphere. It's a show but touted as a space flight. True, the price was set exactly two times less than what our people asked for when they took out rich tourists into real space into orbit. They wanted to cut it down in an easy way. But, as they say, God is not a fraer.
      Look at the Virgin rocket plane itself. It is covered in windows. This design is problematic even in the atmosphere. And then there are space velocities and loads, pressure drops. The ship was designed and calculated purely on computers, without serious systemic tests. Branson believed the computer calculates better than the test of practice. So Branson and the team were in Formula 1. It was called similarly - "Virgin". The machine was also calculated on a computer. But its aerodynamics and speed characteristics were the worst in the field. Only after Branson sold the team, it began to be called "Marusya" and the car was designed as usual, the car managed to rise from the end of the table and even managed to score points.
      All the hype with private space is a way to make money. A catastrophe in this case was only a matter of time. And so it happened. And in a few days, another private rocket exploded at launch. Space does not forgive a light commercial approach



      100 km is the generally accepted figure for the "beginning" of space. The rocket plane was supposed to rise for some time just above 100 km, that is, to "visit" space.
      And the ticket costs $ 200000. Where the figures of 10 million came from here is not very clear.

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