Status: Active
1/1/1971 –
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 10/10/2010
Last Flight: 10/31/2014
Peter Siebold is a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team. He is their Director of Flight Operations was one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo. On October 31, 2014, Peter Siebold and Michael Alsbury were piloting the SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise on flight PF04, when the craft came apart in mid-air and then crashed, killing Alsbury and injuring Siebold.
Launches
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF01
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF03
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF05
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF07
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF09
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise CC12
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF11
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF13
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF15
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF17
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF19
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF21
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF29
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise CF02
- SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF30
- 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.
