MOJAVE, Calif. — California authorities have identified the pilot killed during a test flight of Virgin Galactic’s prototype space tourism rocket over the Mojave Desert.
Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood says the pilot was 39-year-old Michael Tyner Alsbury of Tehachapi, California.
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Alsbury worked for Scaled Composites, the company developing the spaceship for billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space tourism company.
The pilot who survived Friday’s crash has not been identified.
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