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Mark Stucky

American - (VG)

Retired

Date of Birth: Nov. 9, 1958
Age: 66


Mark P. "Forger" Stucky was an American test pilot and commercial astronaut for Virgin Galactic. He left the company in July 2021.

SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF02

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Oct. 28, 2010, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF04

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Jan. 13, 2011, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF06

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
April 27, 2011, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF08

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
May 10, 2011, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF10

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
May 25, 2011, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF12

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
June 15, 2011, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF14

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
June 23, 2011, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF16

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Sept. 29, 2011, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF18

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
June 29, 2012, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF20

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Aug. 2, 2012, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF22

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Aug. 11, 2012, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF23

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Dec. 19, 2012, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF24

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
April 3, 2013, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise CF01

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
April 12, 2013, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Cold flow test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise PF01

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
April 29, 2013, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Powered test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF25

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
July 25, 2013, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF26

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Aug. 8, 2013, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise PF02

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Sept. 5, 2013, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Powered test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF27

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Dec. 11, 2013, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise PF03

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Jan. 10, 2014, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Powered test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF28

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Jan. 17, 2014, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity CC01

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Sept. 8, 2016, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Test flight of VSS Unity with no release from the mothership VMS Eve.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity GF01

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Dec. 3, 2016, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

First free glide test flight of VSS Unity.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity GF02

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Dec. 22, 2016, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Unity.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity GF04

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
May 1, 2017, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Unity.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity GF07

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Jan. 11, 2018, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Unity.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity PF01

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
April 5, 2018, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

First powered test flight of VSS Unity.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity PF02

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
May 29, 2018, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Powered test flight of VSS Unity.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity VP-03

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Dec. 13, 2018, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Powered test flight of VSS Unity. Reached outer space for the first time according to the US definition of the space border.

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity GF09

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
June 25, 2020, noon
Status: Success
Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Unity.

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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.


New Shepard
Success
1 day, 13 hours ago
NS-28
West Texas Suborbital Launch Site/ Corn Ranch - Corn Ranch, Van Horn, TX, USA

Twenty-eighth flight of New Shepard carrying six passengers.


Falcon 9
Success
2 days, 13 hours ago
Starlink Group 6-66
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Soyuz 2.1a
Success
2 days, 16 hours ago
Progress MS-29 (90P)
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.


Starship
Success
4 days, 7 hours ago
Integrated Flight Test 6
Orbital Launch Mount A - SpaceX Starbase, TX, USA

Sixth test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.


Falcon 9
Success
5 days, 10 hours ago
GSAT-20 (GSAT-N2)
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

GSAT-20 is an Indian geostationary Ka-band high-throughput communications satellite. GSAT 20 is reportedly built on the I-6K unified modular bus a…