VSS Unity 24
SpaceShipTwo
Virgin Galactic
Crew
Nicola Pecile
- Birthday: 03/11/1973
- Role: Pilot
- Nationality: Italian
- First Flight: 04/26/2023
- Last Flight: 06/08/2024
Former fighter pilot and experimental test pilot for the Italian Air Force, now pilot at Virgin Galactic.
Frederick W. Sturckow
- Birthday: 08/11/1961
- Role: Pilot
- Nationality: American
- First Flight: 12/04/1998
- Last Flight: 01/26/2024
Frederick Wilford “Rick” Sturckow is an Engineer, retired United States Marine Corps officer, former NASA astronaut, and commercial spacecraft pilot. Sturckow is a veteran of four Space Shuttle missions. He flew on STS-88 and STS-105 as a pilot and STS-117 and STS-128 as a commander. All four missions docked with the International Space Station, making Sturckow one of two people to visit the station four times. Sturckow later was assigned to the Johnson Space Center as a CAPCOM. He left NASA in 2013 to become a pilot for Virgin Galactic.
Mission
VSS Unity 24
- Type: Test Flight
- Orbit: Suborbital
Unpowered glide test
Location
Rocket
Agency
Virgin Galactic
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.