SpaceShipOne Pitchup Incident To Cause Design Changes and Delay

Scaled Composites is planning changes for its SpaceShipOne rocket glider, following a pitchup incident in flight test that showed the current configuration is not safe for the planned flight to 100 km. altitude. The glider was starting an aft center-of-gravity (CG) stall test on its third flight on...

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