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It looks like commercial space has had its Challenger accident. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo has crashed with one pilot dead and the other seriously injured. The price of space admiralty has been paid for, once again. Condolences and good hopes for finding the cause of the disaster, fixing it, and then pressing on to bring the age of space tourism into reality.

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