Virgin Galactic crash blamed on slowing device deploying too soon

Monday, November 3, 2014 - 08:30 in Astronomy & Space

U.S. federal investigators say they have determined that a space tourism rocket broke apart in flight over California's Mojave Desert after a device to slow the experimental spaceship's descent deployed too soon.

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