Galactic 05

Crew

Michael Masucci

Status: Active
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Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 12/11/2013
Last Flight: 11/2/2023

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

Kelly Latimer

Status: Active
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Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 8/10/2023
Last Flight: 11/2/2023

Pilot working for Virgin Galactic. First Spaceflight during the Galactic-02 Mission.

Colin Bennett

Status: Active
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Nationality: Scottish-American
Type: Private
First Flight: 7/11/2021
Last Flight: 11/2/2023

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.

Kellie Gerardi

Status: Occasional Spaceflight
2/16/1989 -
Nationality: USA
Type: Private
First Flight: 11/2/2023
Last Flight: 11/2/2023

Kellie Gerardi is an American aerospace, defense, and technology professional and a popular science communicator.

Ketty Maisonrouge

Status: Occasional Spaceflight
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Nationality: Italian
Type: Private
First Flight: 11/2/2023
Last Flight: 11/2/2023

Passenger on Galactic 05.

Sol Alan Stern

Status: Active
11/22/1957 -
Nationality: USA
Type: Commercial
First Flight: 11/2/2023
Last Flight: 11/2/2023

Sol Alan Stern is an American engineer and planetary scientist. He is the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Chief Scientist at Moon Express.

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.