VSS Unity VF-01
SpaceShipTwo
Virgin Galactic
Crew
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.
Michael Masucci
Status: Active
-
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 12/11/2013
Last Flight: 7/11/2021
Mike “Sooch” Masucci was a former U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and U2 test pilot.
Beth Moses
Status: Retired
5/30/1980 -
Nationality: American
Type: Private
First Flight: 2/22/2019
Last Flight: 7/11/2021
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.
Location
Mojave Air and Space Port
Air launch to Suborbital flight
77 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 53 successful launches and 5 failed launches with a total of 58 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
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.
