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cnn news 2014-11-06

CARL AZUZ, cnn ANCHOR: Welcome back to standard time and to this November, 3 edition of cnn STUDENT NEWS. Hope you are doing well this Monday. I`M

Carl Azuz.

First up, investigators are trying to figure out what caused another spacecraft disaster in the U.S. 45,000 feet above the Earth and about 20

miles northeast of Mojave, California, the Virgin Galactic Spaceship 2 broke up in a test flight Friday.

There were two pilots on board. One was killed in the accident, the other parachuted to the ground. He was injured, but he survived. The founder of

the spaceships company says he`s determined to find out what went wrong and to learn from it. He`s still committed to putting people safely in the

orbit, but the accident wrapped up a tragic and trying week for private space travel.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ground control lost contact with the experimental spacecraft around 10:000 Pacific Time. The half billion dollar rocket

power craft could sit six passengers, but during this test flight, only two pilots were on board. The Spaceship is carried into flight beneath an

airplane. And that launch vehicle returned to the ground safely, but not the spacecraft. What went wrong is anyone`s guess. The ship is 60 feet

long and designed to fly 62 miles above the earth. And the wreckage in the Mojave Desert attests to the ferocity of the explosion.

A crumpled parachute could be seen on the ground, but still authorities say one pilot was killed and the other seriously injured.

It`s a far cry from the ambitious hopes Virgin Galactic Founder Richard Branson expressed earlier this year.

RICHARD BRANSON, VIRGIN GROUP, FOUNDER: 200 of the best engineers and technicians building them. Now we are beginning the final stages of test

flights in flight. By the end of this year, you know, we will eventually gone (ph) interspace.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Instead, it is another blow to the idea of privatized space travel, and it comes only days after a spectacular Launchpad

explosion in Virginia, a blast that involved a spacecraft once again manufactured by a private company.

AZUZ: A militant Islamic group in Africa is denying making a deal with Nigeria`s government. More than 200 schoolgirls who were abducted back in

April have not been freed. This contradicts what the Nigerian government announced in October. It said, it had agreed on a ceasefire with Boko

Haram terrorists. And that the girls would be set free.

But there were doubts about that because Boko Haram continued to attack Nigerians after the statement was made. The terrorist group leader says

the girls, some of them Christians, had converted to Islam and that they`ve been "married off." Nigeria`s government says it`s been fighting a war,

and wars don`t end overnight.