According to the chief executive of the space tourism company Virgin Galactic, the company will continue with its plans to take paying customers on the adventurous space trip in spite of the recent accident of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle.

During the test flight, SpaceShipTwo disintegrated and killed one of its two pilots. Virgin Galactic CEO George Whitesides called the day 'a tragic day' and said that the company would carry on with the venture supported by British entrepreneur Richard Branson.

Whitesides also said in a statement released by the company that they have a new spaceship that is going to be complete soon, so they are going to ensure that they get one as safe as they can and keep going.

The remains of SpaceShipTwo were spread across California's Mojave Desert and investigators from the National Transportation Board are investigating them. Investigators have been concentrating on an obvious action by co-pilot Michael Alsbury to prematurely unlock the rocket plane's movable tail.

The trail is not planned to move until the re-entry part of the craft's flight to correctly orient it as it starts a descent through the atmosphere.

There is possibility that a final report related to the crash and its cause can take a year to prepare. In the crash, Alsbury was killed and pilot Peter Siebold was hurled from the craft still joined to his seat.

He managed to separate himself from the seat and his parachute mechanically deployed and he was kept in hospital for three days for injuries he faced.

"There's a reason why test pilots are respected as some of the most brave members of our society. They are putting themselves in harm's way to make vehicles better for the rest of us, safer for the rest of us", Whitesides said some time before the fatal test flight.

Whitesides said that the company should learn from this recent accident and make sure that nothing like this happened again.