Gaping hole mysteriously appears where former PM once stood at UK space mission with business secretary
after an “anomaly” during the flight. After taking off from Cornwall, the Virgin Orbit plane flew to 35,000ft over the Atlantic where it jettisoned the rocket containing nine small satellites towards space.
Organisers of the Start Me Up mission said the rocket – with a variety of civil and defence applications – had failed to orbit. Boris Johnson with then transport secretary Grant Shapps at Newquay airport spaceport in June 2021. Original picture by Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street Boris Johnson with then transport secretary Grant Shapps at Newquay airport spaceport in June 2021. Original picture by Andrew Parsons / No 10 Downing Street
After the launch failed, Shapps told Sky News: “Space is difficult. Everyone’s used to seeing rockets which explode from Japan, what have you. The great thing about this technology is that no one was harmed. The pilots came back in the aircraft. It didn’t work. I’ve no doubt that they’ll pick themselves up, dust themselves off and they’ll go again once they find out what exactly went wrong with it.
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