David Mackay
British - (VG)
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Date of Birth: Jan. 1, 1957
Age: 68
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.
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF18
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
June 29, 2012, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF25
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
July 25, 2013, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF26
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Aug. 8, 2013, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise PF03
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Jan. 10, 2014, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF28
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Jan. 17, 2014, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity CC01
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Sept. 8, 2016, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity GF01
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Dec. 3, 2016, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity GF02
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Dec. 22, 2016, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity GF03
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Feb. 24, 2017, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity CF01
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
June 1, 2017, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity GF06
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Aug. 4, 2017, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity PF01
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
April 5, 2018, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity PF02
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
May 29, 2018, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity PF03
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
July 26, 2018, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity VF-01
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Feb. 22, 2019, 4:57 p.m.
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity GF08
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
May 1, 2020, 3:14 p.m.
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity VF-02
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Dec. 12, 2020, 3:24 p.m.
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity VF-03
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
May 22, 2021, 3:27 p.m.
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.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 11-30
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 28 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-79
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 3
TJSW-21
Launch Complex 2 (LC-2) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaChinese classified satellite claimed to be for communication technology test purposes. Actual mission not known.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 6-78
Launch Complex 39A - Kennedy Space Center, FL, USAA batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Electron
Follow My Speed (BlackSky Gen-3 3)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1A - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New ZealandNote: Payload and customer identities were not publicly announced. 3rd of the BlackSky Gen-3 high resolution Earth-imaging satellites.
