Get to know the people who steer the company's 'hand-flown suborbital ballistic space plane.'
infrastructure, VMS Eve will be flown Thursday by Commander Jameel Janjua and Pilot Nicola Pecile.
After being dropped by Eve on Thursday morning, VSS Unity will power up its own rocket motor and zoom up to suborbital space. This will be the 25th flight overall and fifth journey to space for the craft, which Moses describes as a"hand-flown suborbital ballistic space plane." "Airliners don't fly without pilots onboard. Why would you get on a spaceship to go into space without having a pilot on board?" Virgin Galactic Chief Pilot Dave McKay asked in the video. He added that the highly experienced test pilots behind the mission and future commercial space trips have flown craft as diverse as high-altitude spy planes, high-performance jets and"We have one of the most talented and experienced group of test pilots in the world," McKay continued.
Another Virgin Galactic pilot, Kelly Latimer — a former test pilot at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center — pointed out that having a pilot on board also makes spaceflight"a more human experience." "Space is something that evokes a very human characteristic that leads us to wonder what's beyond," Janjua said in the video.
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