David Mackay
British - (VG)
Active
Date of Birth: Jan. 1, 1957
Age: 69
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.
Ariane 64
Amazon Leo (LE-01)
Ariane Launch Area 4 - Guiana Space Centre, French GuianaAmazon Leo, formerly known as Project Kuiper, is a mega constellation of satellites in Low Earth Orbit that will offer broadband internet access, thi…
Vulcan VC4S
USSF-87
Space Launch Complex 41 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAUSSF-87 will launch two identical Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) satellites GSSAP-7 and GSSAP-8 directly to a near-geosyn…
Proton-M
Elektro-L No.5
81/24 (81P) - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of KazakhstanElektro-L is a series of meteorological satellites developed for the Russian Federal Space Agency by NPO Lavochkin. They are designed to capture real…
Smart Dragon 3
PRSC-EO2 & 6 satellites
South China Sea (launch location 3) - Haiyang Oriental SpaceportCarried 7 satellites to sun-synchronous orbit, including PRSC-EO2 (Earth observation satellite for the Pakistan government's SUPARCO) & CUHK-1. Detai…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 17-34
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
