With the crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo within four days of Orbital Science’sAntares/Cygnus spacecraft exploding on the launch pad, it’s been a bad week for commercial spaceflight in general and space tourism in particular. Even though the investigations into the SpaceShipTwo incident are only beginning, there are those who already claim that Sir Richard Branson’s dream of sending tourists on suborbital flights into space is as dead as the Hindenburg. But is it?.. Continue Reading Opinion: Is space tourism dead in the wake of the SpaceShipTwo crash?
Section: Space
Tags: Accidents, Safety, Sir Richard Branson, Space Tourism, Spacecraft, Spaceflight,SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic
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