Doug Shane
American - (VG)
Retired
Date of Birth: Jan. 1, 1960
Age: 64
Douglas Bennett Shane is President of The Spaceship Company, as well as an American test pilot who has trained as a commercial astronaut. He was a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Shane worked as the operations director on the SpaceShipOne project in addition to being one of the program pilots, and later served as President of Scaled Composites from 2008 through early 2013. Birthday is unknown.
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF05
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
April 22, 2011, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF08
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
May 10, 2011, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise CC12
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
June 9, 2011, noon
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.
Vulcan VC2S
Certification Flight 2
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAReplacement Vulcan test launch with inert payload, experiments, and demonstrations for certification with the USSF after delays caused by payload tes…
Falcon 9
Crew-9
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USASpaceX Crew-9 is the ninth crewed operational flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew…
Long March 2D
Shijian 19
Launch Area 4 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaShijian 19 is a Chinese recoverable satellite for hoisting various scientific experiments in microgravity. Unlike previous similar Chinese satelli…
H-IIA
IGS Radar 8
Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1 - Tanegashima Space Center, JapanThe IGS Radar 8 is a Japanese radar reconnaissance satellite. The satellite is operated by the Cabinet Satellite Information Center. The satellite se…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 9-8
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
