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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.
VSS Enterprise PF04
Powered test flight of VSS Enterprise. Unintended feathering destroyed the vehicle in-flight, killed one pilot and injured the other.
VSS Enterprise
Serial N339SS
Launch Crew Count 2
Status Destroyed
Landing Time 2014-10-31T12:00:00+0000
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
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 61
Consecutive Success 10
Maiden Flight 2010-10-10
Launch Failures 5
