Peter Siebold
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Peter Siebold is a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team. He is their Vice President of Flight Operations, and was one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo, the experimental s
VSS Enterprise the spacecraft involved in the accident, attached to its mothership, VMS Eve
Space Ship One Nose
VSS Enterprise
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VSS Enterprise was the first SpaceShipTwo spaceplane, built by Scaled Composites for Virgin Galactic. It had been planned to be the first of five commercial suborbital SS2 spacecraft planned by Virgin
Peter Siebold
…top speed of Mach 1.6 and an altitude of 32.0 kilometres (105,000 ft). On October 31, 2014, Siebold and Michael Alsbury were piloting the SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise on flight PF04, when the craft came apart in mid-air and then crashed, killing Alsbury and injuring Siebold. Siebold is the only person in history to…
Enterprise in flight slung under VMS Eve
Enterprise under construction and under wraps in 2008