Carmack may know more about controlled rocket flight than anyone.
His first rocket plane flight in the Bell X-1B experienced a nose gear failure on landing.
SpaceShipTwo, its inventively named commercial vehicle designed to take (well-moneyed) civilians into outerspace, has just completed its first rocket-powered test flight.
Thursday's flawed flight was the first time an Ariane rocket had malfunctioned since Ariane-5's maiden test flight exploded 37 seconds after launch in 1996.
If the project is approved, engineers would hope to have the propulsion unit, or service module, ready to fly on the American rocket's first test flight.
The genesis of this initiative lies in the 1995 flight of a sounding rocket out of Norway carrying a scientific experiment.
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The first attempt to launch the rocket was halted Saturday when a flight computer detected high pressure in an engine combustion chamber.
It will use a balloon to carry its rocket on the first stage of its flight.
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It was the latest in a recent run of flight failures for the national rocket industry.
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Wednesday's flight will use an Ariane 44L rocket equipped with four liquid strap-on boosters, the most powerful version of the Ariane-4 series.
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For Mr. Branson, the test flight met its most important goal: validating the rocket ship's design.
The mission comes a week after a new generation Ariane-5 rocket was successfully launched from Kourou in its third and final qualification flight.
Officials constantly monitor the rocket and its payload and if there is the slightest doubt, the flight is stood down.
This afternoon, the Wall Street Journal got word from government officials that an unmanned rocket funded by Amazon.com billionaire Jeff Bezos crashed during a test flight last week.
Sea Launch, the rocket company that operates from a converted oil rig in the Pacific, has returned to flight.
At least some of the incoming Republican panel chairmen and other senior GOP lawmakers, these officials said, may view the proposed test flight as circumventing congressional language to quickly develop a new heavy-lift NASA rocket able to transport astronauts past low-earth orbit.
In 1996, Europe's Ariane-5 rocket was blown up by ground controllers after it veered off course 40 seconds into its maiden flight.
Seventy-three seconds into the flight, as the spacecraft began an expected roll, the forces on the solid rocket motors began to pull one of them apart.
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For Mr. Branson, the test flight met its most important goal: "We need to make sure that the rocket that works well" on the ground, he said, performs equally well in the air.
The flight will be scrubbed for at least three days if the company's 18-story Falcon 9 rocket and teardrop-shaped Dragon capsule aren't ready.
The Sunday flight -- dubbed CRS-1 -- will have the Dragon capsule piggybacking on a Falcon 9 rocket to punch through the atmosphere while carrying more than a thousand pounds of cargo.
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