Michael Masucci
Michael "Sooch" Masucci is an American test pilot, retired United States Air Force lieutenant colonel, former Lockheed U-2 pilot, and Virgin Galactic commercial astronaut. His record sits in the suborbital commercial-spaceflight lane rather than orbital station work.
- Born
- N/A
- Died
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- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,United States
Flights
6
Spacewalks
N/A
EVA time
N/A
In space
1 hour, 24 minutes, 4 seconds
Bio
Masucci built his aviation career in high-altitude and experimental flying before joining Virgin Galactic. His Air Force and U-2 background gave him experience in pressure-suit operations, high-altitude procedures, and careful test-flight discipline, all of which translated naturally into SpaceShipTwo operations.
His Virgin Galactic spaceflight record contains repeated VSS Unity flights, but several local data labels referred to the same flights by old and new names. The cleaned record lists each actual suborbital flight once: VSS Unity VF-01, Unity 22, Unity 25, Galactic 01, Galactic 03, and Galactic 05.
Masucci's record is a sequence of short commercial suborbital spaceflights, not ISS . His total listed time is 1 hour, 24 minutes, 4 seconds across six VSS Unity flights.