Michael Alsbury

American Test Pilot

Michael Alsbury was born in Santa Clara, California, United States on March 19th, 1975 and is the American Test Pilot. At the age of 39, Michael Alsbury biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

Date of Birth
March 19, 1975
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Santa Clara, California, United States
Death Date
Oct 31, 2014 (age 39)
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Profession
Test Pilot
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Education
California Polytechnic State University (BS)
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Michael Alsbury Career

Alsbury joined Scaled Composites in 2001 and began working as a project engineer and pilot. In April 2013, he served as copilot to Mark Stucky on the first powered flight for VSS Enterprise and SpaceShipTwo.

At the time of his death, he had 1800 flight hours, 1600 of them as a test pilot and engineer with Scaled Composites.

In 2013, he received the Ray E. Tenhoff Award for the most outstanding technical paper at the Society of Experimental Test Pilots symposium along with Mark Stucky and Clint Nichols.

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. Alsbury was unable to exit the spacecraft, and his remains were found still strapped to his seat in the fuselage. The pilot, Peter Siebold, survived. It was the ninth time that Alsbury had flown aboard the aircraft.

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What is Virgin Orbit's next move?

www.dailymail.co.uk, January 10, 2023
It was supposed to herald a new space age for the United Kingdom, but instead it ended in devastating failure. Virgin Orbit's 70ft rocket was successfully launched from the wings of a modified 747 jumbo jet's wing, only to experience a 'anomaly' as it accelerated to space at 11,000 miles per hour. LauncherOne never reached its target altitude to launch nine satellites into orbit, and was eventually lost - either burning in the Earth's atmosphere or breaking apart over the north Atlantic. Sir Richard Branson's cash-trapped company is now fighting for its survival as it hurriedly investigates what went wrong and why the first ever satellite mission launched from UK soil ended in failure.