Michael Alsbury
American - (VG)
Lost In Flight
Date of Birth: March 19, 1975
Date of Death: Oct. 31, 2014
Michael Tyner Alsbury was an American test pilot for Scaled Composites. On October 31, 2014, Alsbury was test flying the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, VSS Enterprise with Peter Siebold. The craft broke up in-flight, resulting in a total loss of VSS Enterprise, which crashed in the California Mojave Desert.
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF01
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Oct. 10, 2010, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF02
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Oct. 28, 2010, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF06
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
April 27, 2011, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF17
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
June 26, 2012, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise GF23
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Dec. 19, 2012, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise CF01
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
April 12, 2013, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise PF01
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
April 29, 2013, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise CF02
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Aug. 28, 2014, noon
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Enterprise PF04
Virgin Galactic | United States of AmericaAir launch to Suborbital flight
Oct. 31, 2014, 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.
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