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A Virgin Galactic spacecraft crashed in the California desert during a test flight Friday, the company said. “We will work closely with relevant authorities to determine the cause of this accident and provide updates ASAP,” the company said in a tweet.Virgin Galactic recently changed SpaceShipTwo’s fuel mixture from a rubber-based solution to a plastic mix, but it’s unclear if that switch had anything to do with Friday’s explosion.A witness told the Associated Press that SpaceShipTwo, which is carried aloft by a separate aircraft called WhiteKnightTwo, exploded shortly after detaching from its carrier craft and igniting its rockets. Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. In 2005, Sir Richard said the company hoped to begin space flights by 2008. Getting the spaceship to piggyback on a plane for the first part of the flight was supposed to make the rocket-ignition process safer. Virgin Galactic was founded by British billionaire Richard Branson after the prize-winning flights of the experimental SpaceShipOne in 2004. On its website, Virgin Galactic says: “Effectively detonating a huge bomb at ground level means everything has to go right first time – if it doesn’t there are generally few options for those inside.”The optimism was based on the success of its partner company, Scaled Composites, which won the $10m Ansari X prize for sending a privately owned manned vessel into space in 2004. Please continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates.Branson’s biographer Tom Bower told Radio 4 on Sunday: “The problem is that Branson placed so much of his commercial future on this rocket, because it was such a brilliant PR stunt … But it was always dangerous and it was always going to end in tragedy.”Create a commenting name to join the debate He had “too much hubris” and “too little knowledge” to be involved in the space business, wrote Jeffrey Kluger, a Time magazine journalist and author of the book Apollo 13, which was later made into a film.Sharing the full story, not just the headlinesAre you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?Are you sure you want to delete this comment?The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Independent Premium. Thousands of jobs were to be created in one of America’s poorest states.Enter your email to follow new comments on this article.Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Start your Independent Premium subscription today.Disaster struck in July 2007 when three people were killed in an explosion during an equipment test on the ground.