VSS Enterprise GF09
SpaceShipTwo
Virgin Galactic
Crew
William Brian Binnie
Status: Retired
1/1/1953 -
Nationality: American
Type: Unknown
First Flight: 5/19/2011
Last Flight: 8/11/2012
William Brian Binnie is a former United States Navy officer and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo
Peter Siebold
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.
Mission
GF09
Type: Test Flight
Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.
Trajectory
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Location
Mojave Air and Space Port
Air launch to Suborbital flight
84 rockets have launched from Air launch to Suborbital flight.
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.
