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Back to EpisodesEpisode 82- Mark “Forger” Stucky and becoming a Rocket Man
Published 7 years, 9 months ago
Description
On December 13th, 2018 test pilot Mark "Forger" Stucky piloted SpaceShipTwo, Virgin Galactic's tourism spaceship into space for the first time after years and years of testing and many set backs. He and his co-pilot Rick "CJ" Sturckow had a "long burn" and reached 51 miles above the Earth (over 270,000'), and reached mach 2.9.
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