SpaceShipTwo | Galactic 05

SpaceShipTwo | Galactic 05

Spaceport America
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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.

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Galactic 05

Fifth commercial Virgin Galactic mission.

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VSS Unity


Serial N202VG

Launch Crew Count 6

Status Retired

Landing Time 2023-11-02T16:00:00+0000


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Crew

Michael Masucci

Commander

Nationality American

Date Of Birth

Status Active

Type Private


Kelly Latimer

Pilot

Nationality American

Date Of Birth

Status Active

Type Private


Colin Bennett

Instructor

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1985-01-01

Status Active

Type Private


Kellie Gerardi

Passenger

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1989-02-16

Status Occasional Spaceflight

Type Private


Ketty Maisonrouge

Passenger

Nationality Italian

Date Of Birth

Status Occasional Spaceflight

Type Private


Sol Alan Stern

Passenger

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1957-11-22

Status Occasional Spaceflight

Type Commercial


SpaceShipTwo


Height 18.00 Meters

Max Stages 1

Mass To GTO 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust 310 kN

Diameter 8.20 Meters

Mass To LEO 0 kg

Liftoff Mass 9 Tonnes


Launch Success 62

Consecutive Success 11

Maiden Flight 2010-10-10

Launch Failures 5


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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin

2023-11-02T16:06:47+0000

SS2 has landed.

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-11-02T15:45:12+0000

SS2 release.

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LL2

2023-11-02T14:45:54+0000

Livestream has started

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-10-31T12:04:17+0000

Added launch window. (date confirmed per https://twitter.com/virgingalactic/status/1719094728975663151)

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Cosmic_Penguin

2023-10-19T05:53:19+0000

Added launch.

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