Doug Shane

American - (VG)

Retired

Date of Birth: Jan. 1, 1960
Age: 65

Douglas Bennett Shane is President of The Spaceship Company, as well as an American test pilot who has trained as a commercial astronaut. He was a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Shane worked as the operations director on the SpaceShipOne project in addition to being one of the program pilots, and later served as President of Scaled Composites from 2008 through early 2013. Birthday is unknown.

Spaceflight Record

Doug Shane flew on four previous launch(es).

SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF05

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
April 22, 2011, noon

Status: Success

Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

Suborbital

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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.

Suborbital

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise CC12

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
June 9, 2011, noon

Status: Partial Failure

Mission:

Cold flow test flight of VSS Enterprise. Release failure during flight intended as GF11.

Suborbital

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SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF11

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
June 14, 2011, noon

Status: Success

Mission:

Free glide test flight of VSS Enterprise.

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.

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