Status: Retired
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Nationality: Scottish-American
Type: Private
First Flight: 7/11/2021
Last Flight: 7/11/2021
Colin Bennett is an American engineer who worked at Virgin Atlantic Airways before joining Virgin Galactic in 2015 where he now acts as Lead Operations Engineer.
Virgin Galactic
Type: Private
Abbreviation: VG
Administration: Founder: Richard Branson
Founded: 2004
Launchers: VMS Eve
Spacecraft: VSS Enterprise | VSS Unity
Country: USA
Virgin Galactic is an American spaceflight company within the Virgin Group. It is developing commercial spacecraft and aims to provide suborbital spaceflights to space tourists. Virgin Galactic’s suborbital spacecraft are air launched from beneath a carrier airplane known as White Knight Two.
Bluebelle Cooke
July 12, 2021 at 12:22 PMColin Bennett was born in 1985-1986 and he’s British not American (from Clevedon, England I think)
Alan Bennett
July 15, 2021 at 11:10 AMActually he is Scottish! I know – I am his dad!
Rocket Monkey
July 15, 2021 at 11:12 AMWhat an honor to have you comment on the website. Is he an American citizen? I wonder if that is why he was designated as American? I am working with my data provider to get the information updated.