VSS Unity 22
SpaceShipTwo
Virgin Galactic
Crew
David Mackay
Status: Active
1/1/1957 -
Nationality: British
Type: Private
First Flight: 6/29/2012
Last Flight: 7/11/2021
Astronaut David William Donald Mackay AFC is the British Chief Pilot of Virgin Galactic, and a former RAF test pilot. He is the first native-born Scot to visit space.
Michael Masucci
Status: Active
-
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 12/11/2013
Last Flight: 7/11/2021
Mike “Sooch” Masucci was a former U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and U2 test pilot.
Beth Moses
Status: Retired
5/30/1980 -
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 2/22/2019
Last Flight: 7/11/2021
Beth Moses is Chief Astronaut Instructor and Interiors Program Manager for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo program, and is a commercial astronaut. She was the first woman to make a spaceflight on a commercially launched vehicle, the VSS Unity VF-01 flight of 22 February 2019.
Sir Richard Branson
Status: Retired
7/18/1950 -
Nationality: British
Type: Private
First Flight: 7/11/2021
Last Flight: 7/11/2021
Sir Richard Branson is an English business magnate and founder of the Virgin Group. He later founded both Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit.
Sirisha Bandla
Status: Retired
1/22/1988 -
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 7/11/2021
Last Flight: 7/11/2021
Sirisha Bandla is an American engineer who worked at Virgin Galactic between from 2015 until 2020 when she joined Virgin Orbit. She is back at Virgin Galactic since 2021 as Vice President of Government Affairs.
Colin Bennett
Status: Retired
1/1/1985 -
Nationality: Scottish-American
Type: Private
First Flight: 7/11/2021
Last Flight: 7/11/2021
Colin Bennett is an American engineer who worked at Virgin Atlantic Airways before joining Virgin Galactic in 2015 where he now acts as Lead Operations Engineer.
Date of birth is unknown.
Mission
VSS Unity 22
Type: Tourism
Powered flight of VSS Unity on the first fully crewed flight. Including the founder Sir Richard Branson.
Location
Spaceport America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
77 rockets have launched from Air launch to Suborbital flight.
Agency
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.
Best wishes Richard and the crew for a successful safe flight and more to come in the future.
I just heard some deep rumblings near Cape Canaveral area in Florida – at about 11:41. Could that be related in any way to the sonic events of the Virgin Galactic flight??? Sounded like sonic booms but a bit quieter…
Oops- prob thunder :/
Way to go Senor Branson!Catch you on Flip side,Virgin Galactic.
Perfect Sir Richard the universe has opened to us all now .