http://www.newspacejournal.com/2010/10/10/scaled-ready-to-begin-spaceshiptwo-glide-tests/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.newspacejournal.com/2010/10/10/scaled-ready-to-begin-spaceshiptwo-glide-tests/comment-page-1/#comment-452121 Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:18:36 +0000 http://www.newspacejournal.com/?p=1255#comment-452121 Examining crewing of past flights of WK2 and the two manned attached SS2 flights the likely crew for the glide tests are Pete Siebold (pilot) and Michael Alsbury (co-pilot). They have conducted both the manned attached SS2 tests and flown several missions together to harmonise crew proficiency on WK2 prior to the SS2 tests. It will be interesting to see how quickly they progress to live engine tests especaially if commercial passengers are to fly in mid 2011.

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