After a partly successful test flight, European firm eyes space station mission
by Eric Berger from Ars Technica - All content on (#6YR3H)
Last month, the parachutes on Helene Huby's small spacecraft failed to deploy, and the vehicle and its cargo crashed into the oceanon Earth.
It was both a success and a failure.
The success was that after Huby founded The Exploration Company in Europe, she managed to move nimbly with the "Mission Possible" spacecraft such that it cost less than $25 million to build and reached space in less than three years. The vehicle ticked off a number of successes in spaceflight before making a controlled descent through the atmosphere.