主题：【整理】美国火箭爆炸了 -- 懒虫123

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/31/us/spaceshiptwo-incident/index.html?c=homepage-t

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周五维珍银河公司在Twitter上表示，正在测试的太空船二号（spaces ship two）在加州莫哈维航天航空港测试飞行中出现异常造成飞行员一死一伤的重大事故。目前载人航天器“太空船二号”已经坠毁。但是关于事故细节，维珍银河公司并没有给出相关信息。

据BBC新闻网发出的照片可以看出太空船二号已经坠毁沙漠中。

加州公路巡警表示至少一人在事故中死亡一人重伤。

维珍银河太空船二号属于英国亿万富翁理查德-布兰森旗下的维珍银河公司。“太空船二号”目标是实现商业太空游。

这架太空船目前处于测试阶段，31日由另一艘更大的太空船母舰“白色骑士二号”搭载升空，然后将其抛下，进行火箭引擎测试。通常太空船上有两名驾驶，美国有线电视新闻网报导，其中一名驾驶丧生，另一人重伤。

(CNN) - The first sign there was a problem Friday with Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo came at about 45,000 feet, just two minutes after the spaceplane separated from the jet-powered aircraft that carried it aloft, officials said.

It wasn't something overt with SpaceShipTwo, said Stuart Witt, the chief executive of Mojave Air & Space Port, where SpaceShipTwo was launched and monitored.

It was what didn't happen next during the test flight, he said. Witt did not offer details, but appeared to indicate the spaceplane did not follow its previous test-flight patterns.

Nothing seemed abnormal during the takeoff or flight prior to the spaceplane's failure, he said.

"...If there was a huge explosion, I didn't see it," Witt said.

This much is known, according to Witt and others: One pilot is dead and another has been hospitalized with serious injuries.

The injured pilot was airlifted to Antelope Valley Hospital in Lancaster, California, authorities said.

There have been reports that the pilots managed to bail out, using parachutes. But neither Virgin Galactic or its partner conducting the test flight, Scaled Composites, have confirmed the accounts.

The two pilots worked for Scaled Composites, according to that company's president, Kevin Mickey. He declined to publicly identify the pilots or detail their experience.

"Space is hard, and today was a tough day. We are going to be supporting the investigation as we figure out what happened today, and we are going to get through it," Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides said.