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There are many months of investigation ahead of the National Transportation Safety Board, as it tries to piece together the story of SpaceShipTwo's fatal crash in the Mojave desert last Friday. Based on evidence that the NTSB has already released, we know the craft deployed its shuttlecock-like wing feathers when it reached Mach 1, which appears to be precisely the wrong time to do so, and exploded two seconds later. Co-pilot Michael Alsbury began activating the feathers, and died in the crash.
What the NTSB hasn't been able to begin to answer, however, is the question of how pilot Peter Siebold was able to escape the explosion with his life. How did he stay conscious without an oxygen mask or spacesuit in the freezing cold, dangerously airless upper atmosphere? How did he survive what appears to be a 40,000 feet free fall before deploying his parachute at around 20,000 feet above the ground? Read more...
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