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.
Spaceflight Record
No spaceflights found for Michael Alsbury.
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.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 17-3
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.
Falcon 9
Project Kuiper (KF-01)
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USAFirst of a three launches contract for Amazon's Kuiper low Earth orbit satellite internet constellation, with 24 satellites on board.
Falcon 9
Starlink Group 15-2
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USAA batch of 26 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Long March 7
Tianzhou-9
201 - Wenchang Space Launch Site, People's Republic of ChinaEighth cargo delivery mission to the Chinese space station.
Falcon 9
Dror-1
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USANote: SpaceX identifies the mission as "Commercial GTO 1". Dror-1 is a geostationary communication satellite built and developed by Israel Aerospa…
