VSS Unity VF-01
SpaceShipTwo
Virgin Galactic
Crew
Michael Masucci
Status: Active
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Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 12/11/2013
Last Flight: 11/2/2023
Mike “Sooch” Masucci was a former U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and U2 test pilot.
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.
Beth Moses
Status: Active
5/30/1980 -
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 2/22/2019
Last Flight: 10/6/2023
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 VF-01
Type: Test Flight
Powered test flight of VSS Unity. Carried a third crew member in the passenger cabin for the first time.
Trajectory
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Location
Mojave Air and Space Port
Air launch to Suborbital flight
84 rockets have launched from Air launch to Suborbital flight.
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.
