WATCH LIVE: Officials Discuss Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Explosion

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2013, file photo, shows Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo at a Virgin Galactic hangar at Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, Calif. Virgin Galactic has reported an unspecified problem during a ... FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2013, file photo, shows Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo at a Virgin Galactic hangar at Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, Calif. Virgin Galactic has reported an unspecified problem during a test flight of its SpaceShipTwo space tourism rocket. The company tweeted Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, morning that SpaceShipTwo was flying under rocket power and then tweeted that it had "experienced an in-flight anomaly." The tweet said more information would be forthcoming. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File) MORE LESS
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Officials are expected to discuss the Virgin Galactic space tourism rocket explosion that killed the pilot and seriously injured someone else on Friday. The news conference is expected to begin at 5 p.m. ET. Watch live here:

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