Colin Bennett

American - (VG)

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Colin Bennett is an American engineer who worked at Virgin Atlantic Airways before joining Virgin Galactic in 2015 where he now acts as Lead Astronaut Instructor.

Spaceflight Record

Colin Bennett flew on four previous launch(es).

SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity 22

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
July 11, 2021, 3:25 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

Powered flight of VSS Unity on the first fully crewed flight. Including the founder Sir Richard Branson.

Suborbital

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SpaceShipTwo | Galactic 01

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
June 29, 2023, 3:28 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

Research mission for the Italian Air Force, first commercial Virgin Galactic mission.

Suborbital

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SpaceShipTwo | Galactic 03

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Sept. 8, 2023, 3:22 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

Third commercial Virgin Galactic mission.

Suborbital

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SpaceShipTwo | Galactic 05

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Nov. 2, 2023, 3:44 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

Fifth commercial Virgin Galactic mission.

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

3 hours, 1 minute ago

Starlink Group 17-42

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

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

Vega-C

Success

1 day, 1 hour ago

Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE)

Ariane Launch Area 1 (ELV) - Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana

Joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to investigate the interaction between Earth’s protective shield …

Long March 8

Success

2 days, 15 hours ago

SpaceSail Polar Group #9

Commercial LC-1 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of China

18 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites with Ku, Q and V band payloads for the G60 constellation operated by Shanghai Spacesail Technologies with…

Falcon 9

Success

4 days, 7 hours ago

Dragon CRS-2 SpX-34

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

34th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX. The flight will be conducted under the second Commer…

Kinetica 1

Success

5 days, 1 hour ago

5 satellites

Launch Area 130 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Share-ride of 5 satellites to sun-synchronous orbit: * Taijing-3-05A/B * Tianyi-50 * Tianyan-27 * Jilin-1 HR-03D-55