Doug Shane
American - ( VG)
Retired
Date of Birth: Jan. 1, 1960
Age: 61
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.
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF05
Virgin Galactic | USAAir launch to Suborbital flight
April 22, 2011, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF08
Virgin Galactic | USAAir launch to Suborbital flight
May 10, 2011, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise CC12
Virgin Galactic | USAAir launch to Suborbital flight
June 9, 2011, noon
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 2
Yaogan-30-09
Launch Complex 3 ( LC-3 ) ( LA-1 ) - Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of ChinaThe Yaogan-30 is a series of military remote sensing satellites which are launched in triplets. The satellites are spaced by 120° in their orbit.
Falcon 9 Block 5
GPS III SV05
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral, FL, USAGPS-IIIA (Global Positioning System) is the first evolution stage of the third generation of the GPS satellites. It consists of the first ten (known …
Long March 2F
Shenzhou 12
Launch Area 4 (SLS-1 / 921) - Jiuquan, People's Republic of ChinaFirst crewed flight to the Chinese large modular space station.
Minotaur I
NROL-111
Launch Area 0 B - Wallops Island, Virginia, USAClassified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office.
Pegasus XL
Odyssey (TacRL-2)
Vandenberg Space Force Base - Air launch to orbitPayload for the US Space Force’s Tactically Responsive Launch program. It is a space domain awareness satellite that was procured under the Space For…
