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Fourteen years ago, Michael Alsbury was in his mid-20s, and just starting out his career in the Mojave Desert, where he would make a living beyond the clouds
By 2014, the Scaled Composites pilot and project engineer had spent 1,800 hours in the sky — a total of 75 days. Alsbury first flew in the SpaceShipTwo in 2010, and had flown in it at least seven times after that. In April 2013, he boarded the spacecraft as co-pilot in the ship's first rocket-powered flight, the first time it would break the sound barrier. The whole event lasted a brief 10 minutes. Alsbury and fellow pilot Mark Stucky shot to 920 miles an hour, flew 56,000 feet above the Earth's surface and eased back down to the desert. Read more...
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