Status: Lost In Flight
3/19/1975 – 10/31/2014
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 10/10/2010
Last Flight: 10/31/2014
Michael Tyner Alsbury was an American test pilot for Scaled Composites. On October 31, 2014, Alsbury was test flying the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, VSS Enterprise with Peter Siebold. The craft broke up in-flight, resulting in a total loss of VSS Enterprise, which crashed in the California Mojave Desert.
Launches
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF01
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF02
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF06
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF17
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF23
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise CF01
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise PF01
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise CF02
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise PF04
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.
