David Mackay
British - (VG)
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Date of Birth: Jan. 1, 1957
Age: 68
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.
Long March 3
TJSW-15
Launch Complex 3 (LC-3/LA-1) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaChinese classified satellite claimed to be for communication technology test purposes. Actual mission not known.
Starship
Flight 8
Orbital Launch Mount A - SpaceX Starbase, TX, USAEighth test flight of the two-stage Starship launch vehicle.
Ariane 62
CSO-3
Ariane Launch Area 4 - Guiana Space Centre, French GuianaThe CSO-3 (Composante Spatiale Optique-3 satellite is the third of three new-generation high-resolution optical imaging satellites for the French mil…
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 12-20
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAA batch of 21 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M
Glonass-K2 No. 14 (Kosmos 2584)
43/3 (43L) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian FederationGlonass-K2 are the fourth generation of satellite design for GLONASS satellite navigation system. GLONASS is a Russian space-based navigation system …
