First name and last name | Doug Shane |
Date of birth | 01.01.1960 |
Nationality | American |
Space Agency | Virgin Galactic (VG) |
Status | Retired |
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 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.