Galactic 03

Crew

Nicola Pecile

Status: Active
3/11/1973 -
Nationality: Italian
Type: Private
First Flight: 4/26/2023
Last Flight: 9/8/2023

Former fighter pilot and experimental test pilot for the Italian Air Force, now pilot at Virgin Galactic.

Michael Masucci

Status: Active
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Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 12/11/2013
Last Flight: 9/8/2023

Mike “Sooch” Masucci was a former U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and U2 test pilot.

Colin Bennett

Status: Active
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Nationality: Scottish-American
Type: Private
First Flight: 7/11/2021
Last Flight: 9/8/2023

Colin Bennett is an American engineer who worked at Virgin Atlantic Airways before joining Virgin Galactic in 2015 where he now acts as Lead Astronaut Instructor.

Adrian Reynard

Status: Occasional Spaceflight
3/23/1951 -
Nationality: United Kingdom
Type: Private
First Flight: 9/8/2023
Last Flight: 9/8/2023

Adrian John Reynard is the founder of Reynard Motorsport, which was a successful racing car manufacturer before it went bankrupt in 2002.

Ken Baxter

Status: Occasional Spaceflight
5/15/1949 -
Nationality: USA
Type: Private
First Flight: 9/8/2023
Last Flight: 9/8/2023

Ken "Rocket Man" Baxter (born May 15, 1949) is a real estate investor who purchased the first ticket sold to a civilian to be a passenger on Virgin Galactic in 2004.

Agency

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.