📅 #OTD in 2014 – 🚀 Virgin Galactic’s VSS Enterprise breaks apart during a test flight in California’s Mojave Desert, dealing a devastating blow to private space travel dreams. 📺 Watch the full episode on YouTube: 🔗 https://youtu.be/Cm_PyMhEW9s | Mayday / Air Crash Investigation / Air Disasters

S18e06 "Deadly Mission" VSS Enterprise crash | Aircrash Investigation - Mayday

October 31st - on this day in 2014, Virgin Galactic conducted a powered test flight of its SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise spaceplane out of Mojave Air & Space Port in California. Crewed by Pilot Peter Siebold and Co-Pilot Michael Alsbury, VSS Enterprise was dropped from the VMS Eve mothership at its release altitude and the engine ignited. SpaceShipTwo features a feather system that rotates a feather flap assembly with twin tailbooms upward from the vehicle’s normal configuration of 0º to 60º in or

It was January 14, 1969. The Enterprise was en route to Vietnam when a rocket exploded on the flight deck. The blasts from fuel tanks, warheads and 500 pound bombs killed 28 and injured more than 300. 🎥Carrier at War | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation