Luke Mays

American - (VG)

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Former NASA astronaut instructor, now astronaut instructor at Virgin Galactic.

Spaceflight Record

Luke Mays flew on one previous launch(es).

SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity 25

Virgin Galactic | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
May 25, 2023, 4:23 p.m.

Status: Success

Mission:

Virgin Galactic return to space mission ahead of the first commercial flight.

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.

Recent Launches

Long March 4C

Success

2 days, 7 hours ago

Daqi-2 (AEMS)

Launch Area 94 (SLS-2 / 603) - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Daqi-2 (DQ-2), also known as the Atmospheric Environment Monitoring Satellite/AEMS, is the second of follow-on series of Chinese satellites to the GF…

Soyuz 2.1b/Volga

Success

2 days, 12 hours ago

Kosmos (Unknown Payload)

43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Unknown satellite(s) for the Russian military.

Falcon 9

Success

4 days, 6 hours ago

Starlink Group 17-27

Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Falcon 9

Success

5 days, 1 hour ago

Starlink Group 10-24

Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Kinetica 1

Success

5 days, 7 hours ago

8 x Jilin-1

Launch Area 130 - Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

8 Earth observation satellites for the Jilin-1 commercial Earth observation satellites constellation: * High Resolution-07A 02-04 * High Resoluti…