VSS Enterprise

Historical eventOctober 312014

VSS Enterprise

During a test flight, the VSS Enterprise, a Virgin Galactic experimental spaceflight test vehicle, suffers a catastrophic in-flight breakup and crashes in the Mojave Desert, California.

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When
Friday, October 31 201412 years ago
Category
Historical eventA dated happening — a battle, treaty, launch, discovery, disaster or decision — recorded on this calendar day.
Era
21st century · 2010s
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At a glance

Dates: From 2014.

What happened

VSS Enterprise was the first SpaceShipTwo (SS2) spaceplane, built by Scaled Composites for Virgin Galactic. It had been planned to be the first of five commercial suborbital SS2 spacecraft planned by Virgin Galactic, but only one other was ever built.

October 31 through the years

Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.

  1. 1999Jesse Martin
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  3. 2000Singapore Airlines Flight 006
  4. 2002Houston
  5. 2003Mahathir Mohamad
  6. 2005Moons of Pluto
  7. 2011World population
  8. 2014VSS Enterprise
  9. 2015Metrojet Flight 9268
  10. 20172017 New York City truck attack
  11. 2020Berlin Brandenburg Airport

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When did VSS Enterprise happen?

October 31 2014 — 12 years ago, on a Friday.

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