You might want to postpone that holiday...

[OriginalGriff]

Virgin Galactic test flight explosion[^] Damn. :rose:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

[Laiju k]

what do you mean by postpone holiday

[Amarnath S]

Space holiday. Holiday in space - that was what this test mission was for. Some more details here[^].

[Laiju k]

Thanks.Then we should postpone that holiday.

[Mycroft Holmes]

I just hope they don't let it stop them and they can avoid the H&S nightmare that NASA has to live with.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

[Mike Hankey]

I guess you could call it the price of progress but it is so sad that it has to happen. For the crew person! :rose:

New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription. I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.

[Simon ORiordan from UK]

Back in the 50's a test pilot died every week. Just in Great Britain.

[Kirk 10389821]

Then the stopped Monty Python from planning the tests :-)

[Simon ORiordan from UK]

No joke, same thing in USA.

[Gary Henning]

At first, I wondered which holiday you were referring to as well. In the US, we follow the definition of holiday as "a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.", whereas in other parts of the world it is used to describe vacation. I've often wondered why British English speakers don't use the term vacation.

[Gary R Wheeler]

While it is tragic that the pilot was killed, and disappointing that SpaceShip Two was destroyed, at least it demonstrates the will behind the project. Virgin intends to make this work. Too many of these projects are safe, boutique demonstrations of corner technology bits, their sole purpose to bring in clueless investors to fund more worthless dog-and-pony shows.

Software Zen: delete this;

[obermd]

I think the window on sub-orbital joy rides is closing fast and Branson is going to take a bath on this endeavor. Sub-orbital flight from point A to point B on opposite sides of the world is a different market.