WUSA Wusa 9 News At 5pm October 31, 2014
Another breaking story tonight, the deadly crash of a commercial spacecraft. Witnesses say the craft exploded during a test flight over californias mojave desert. The local sheriff says one pilot was killed and a second pilot ejected but seriously injured. No one else was aboard. The wreckage just scattered across the desert. This was a suborbital passenger craft called space shape 2 developed by billionaire Richard Branson virgin galactic. Hundreds of people put down deposits hoping to someday fly aboard the craft. Virgin galactic said the spaceship experienced some sort of inflight anomaly. ...