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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise PF04

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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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VSS Enterprise PF04

Powered test flight of VSS Enterprise. Unintended feathering destroyed the vehicle in-flight, killed one pilot and injured the other.

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VSS Enterprise


Serial N339SS

Launch Crew Count 2

Status Destroyed

Landing Time 2014-10-31T12:00:00+0000


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Crew

Michael Alsbury

Pilot

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1975-03-19

Deceased 2014-10-31

Status Lost In Flight

Type Private


Peter Siebold

Pilot

Nationality American

Date Of Birth 1971-01-01

Status Active

Type Private


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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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