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David Mackay

David Mackay

Status: Active
1/1/1957 –
Nationality: British
Type: Private
First Flight: 6/29/2012
Last Flight: 7/11/2021

Astronaut David William Donald Mackay AFC is the British Chief Pilot of Virgin Galactic, and a former RAF test pilot. He is the first native-born Scot to visit space.

Virgin Galactic - VG

  • 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.

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