VSS Unity CC01
SpaceShipTwo
Virgin Galactic
Launch Status
Success Crew
David Mackay
- Birthday: 01/01/1957
- Role: Pilot
- Nationality: British
- First Flight: 06/29/2012
- Last Flight: 07/11/2021
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.
Mark Stucky
- Birthday: 11/09/1958
- Role: Pilot
- Nationality: American
- First Flight: 10/28/2010
- Last Flight: 06/25/2020
Mark P. “Forger” Stucky was an American test pilot and commercial astronaut for Virgin Galactic. He left the company in July 2021.
Mission
VSS Unity CC01
- Type: Test Flight
- Orbit: Suborbital
Test flight of VSS Unity with no release from the mothership VMS Eve.
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.