VSS Unity 25
SpaceShipTwo
Virgin Galactic
Crew

Michael Masucci
Status: Active
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Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 12/11/2013
Last Flight: 5/25/2023
Mike “Sooch” Masucci was a former U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and U2 test pilot.

Frederick W. Sturckow
Status: Active
8/11/1961 -
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 12/4/1998
Last Flight: 5/25/2023
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.

Jamila Gilbert
Status: Active
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Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 5/25/2023
Last Flight: 5/25/2023
Virgin Galactic internal communications lead

Christopher Huie
Status: Active
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Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 5/25/2023
Last Flight: 5/25/2023
Aerospace engineer, senior manager of Virgin Galactic's Flight Sciences Engineering team.

Luke Mays
Status: Active
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Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 5/25/2023
Last Flight: 5/25/2023
Former NASA astronaut instructor, now astronaut instructor at Virgin Galactic.

Beth Moses
Status: Active
5/30/1980 -
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 2/22/2019
Last Flight: 5/25/2023
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.
Mission
VSS Unity 25
Type: Test Flight
Virgin Galactic return to space mission ahead of the first commercial flight.
Trajectory
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Location
Spaceport America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
79 rockets have launched from Air launch to Suborbital flight.

Rocket
SpaceShipTwo – Virgin Galactic
- Family: SpaceShipTwo
- Length: 18 m
- Diameter: 8.2 m
- Launch Mass: 9 T
- Low Earth Orbit Capacity: 0 kg
The SpaceShipTwo was manufactured by Virgin Galactic with the first launch on 2010-10-10. SpaceShipTwo has 55 successful launches and 5 failed launches with a total of 60 launches. The Scaled Composites Model 339 SpaceShipTwo (SS2) is an air-launched suborbital spaceplane type designed for space tourism. It is manufactured by The Spaceship Company, a California-based company owned by Virgin Galactic.
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.
Can we drive out and watch live?
Not that I am aware of.
can we watch online ??
Yes the link is available above now.
Well done to all involved ,
looking forward to flying from Australia to London in 2 hours , bring it on .!!