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Astronauts
Doug Shane

Retired· VG · American

Doug Shane

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...

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Spacewalks

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Flights

Success· Flight 4

VSS Enterprise GF11

Launched: Jun 14, 2011 · 12:00 UTC
Rocket: SpaceShipTwo
From: Mojave Air and Space Port, Air launch to Suborbital flight
Destination: Suborbital

Crewmates

Peter SieboldVG

Partial failure· Flight 3

VSS Enterprise CC12

Launched: Jun 9, 2011 · 12:00 UTC
Rocket: SpaceShipTwo
From: Mojave Air and Space Port, Air launch to Suborbital flight
Destination: Suborbital
Landed: Jun 14, 2011

Crewmates

Peter SieboldVG

Success· Flight 2

VSS Enterprise GF08

Launched: May 10, 2011 · 12:00 UTC
Rocket: SpaceShipTwo
From: Mojave Air and Space Port, Air launch to Suborbital flight
Destination: Suborbital
Landed: Jun 9, 2011

Crewmates

Mark StuckyVG

Success· Flight 1

VSS Enterprise GF05

Launched: Apr 22, 2011 · 12:00 UTC
Rocket: SpaceShipTwo
From: Mojave Air and Space Port, Air launch to Suborbital flight
Destination: Suborbital
Landed: May 10, 2011

Crewmates

Peter SieboldVG

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Biography

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.

Facts

Agency: VG
Status: Retired
Nationality: American
Born: January 1, 1960
First flight: Apr 22, 2011

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