NTSB team arrives to investigate spacecraft crash

November 01, 2014 22:00

Federal accident investigators arrived Saturday to begin a probe into the cause of an accident that destroyed a prototype space tourism rocket ship during a test flight, killing one pilot and injuring another.

The National Transportation Safety Board team was expected to hold an initial press conference later in the day at the Mojave Air and Space Port, where the winged spacecraft was under development.

Also expected to come to the area about 120 miles north of downtown Los Angeles was British billionaire Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Galactic, whose SpaceShipTwo blew apart after being released from a carrier aircraft Friday.

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