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Virgin Galactic aborts first powered spaceflight in two years as rocket engine fails
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mirror.co.ukVirgin Galactic was forced to abort its first powered spaceflight in two years after the craft's rocket engine failed to ignite.
There was a trail of smoke as the VSS Unity SpaceShipTwo vehicle - which could one day send tourists into space - glided down to safety as the test flight came to a premature end on Saturday morning.
Developed by Richard Branson’s space tourism company, the craft was attempting to reach suborbital space, but achieved just one second of powered flight before the engine failed.
The Unity vehicle took off from the Spaceport America site in New Mexico desert in the US, and was piloted by former Nasa astronauts CJ Sturckow and David Mackay.
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