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VSS Unity 25

SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic

Launch Status
Success

Crew

Michael Masucci

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

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

Jamila Gilbert

Status: Active
-
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 5/25/2023
Last Flight: 5/25/2023

Virgin Galactic internal communications lead

Christopher Huie

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

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

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.

Spaceport America, 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.

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David Gallegos
David Gallegos
14 days ago

Can we drive out and watch live?

Rocket Monkey
Rocket Monkey
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Reply to  David Gallegos
14 days ago

Not that I am aware of.

Brian
Brian
13 days ago

can we watch online ??

Rocket Monkey
Rocket Monkey
Admin
Reply to  Brian
13 days ago

Yes the link is available above now.

Ken & Judy O
Ken & Judy O' Neill
13 days ago

Well done to all involved ,
looking forward to flying from Australia to London in 2 hours , bring it on .!!