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Virgin Galactic spaceship crashes during California test flight

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Helicopters and trucks rush across the Mojave Desert in California... to the site of a suborbital passenger spaceship that crashed during a test flight.

The spaceship was being developed by Richard Branson's Virgin company and is called the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo.

The local Sheriff's office says the co-pilot was killed and the pilot ejected, suffering serious injuries.

SpaceShipTwo was taking its first powered test flight since January and it's unclear what caused the crash.

The company said in a tweet that the ship suffered "a serious anomaly" during the test flight and was working with authorities to investigate the accident.

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