Luke Mays

American - (VG)

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Former NASA astronaut instructor, now astronaut instructor at Virgin Galactic.

Spaceflight Record

Luke Mays flew on one previous launch(es).

SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity 25

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
May 25, 2023, 4:23 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

Virgin Galactic return to space mission ahead of the first commercial flight.

Suborbital

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Founder: Richard Branson

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.

Recent Launches

Falcon 9

Success

4 days, 11 hours ago

Starlink Group 6-88

Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Falcon 9

Success

5 days, 16 hours ago

CSG-3

Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

CSG-3 is an Earth observation satellite for the Italian Space Agency, part of a reconnaissance constellation using synthetic aperture radars operatin…

Long March 7A

Success

1 week, 1 day ago

Shijian 29 A-B

201 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

2 satellites officially described as for "demonstration of new technologies for spatial targets detection" purposes.

Long March 4B

Success

1 week, 2 days ago

Tianhui 7

Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

A satellite officially described as for cartography purposes, details TBD.

Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M

Success

1 week, 4 days ago

AIST-2T 01 & 02

Cosmodrome Site 1S - Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation

A pair of Russian optical Earth observation satellites built by the Progress Rocket Space Centre for obtaining stereo images of the Earth's surface, …