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There are still many questions surrounding Friday’s deadly crash of Virgin Galactic’s experimental space plane, Space Ship Two.

One test pilot was killed and another severely injured.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating what Virgin Galactic is calling “an in-flight anomaly.”

For $250,000 you could fly more than 100 kilometres above space and experience zero gravity on board a Virgin Galactic plane.

More than 700 people have already signed up to fly on a virgin spaceship.

The British airspace company was considered by many to be the best hope in space tourism.

But after Friday’s deadly explosion, one expert says this is a big blow to the industry.

A passenger spaceship dubbed Space Ship Two crashed during a test flight near the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

Space Ship Two was testing a new plastic based rocket fuel for the first time.

The launch was supposed to be the first in a series of test flights leading to the Virgin Galatic’s maiden flight in space, but that will not be put on hold as the national transportation safety board investigates.

Founder Richard Branson vowed to persevere with space travel following the test pilot’s death.

There are only a handful of companies currently developing spacecrafts for tourists.

Besides weekly trips into orbit these companies hope to build hotels in space by 2016.

Executive director of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Randy Atwood, says that while Friday’s events were tragic they are a part of the business.

The investigation into what went wrong onboard Space Ship Two is still in the early stages, and its impact on the space tourism industry wont be known for some time.