Dave MacKay, 53-year-old British pilot, will be the first captain of Virgin Galactic‘s commercial space fleet, taking up the role first with the maiden voyage of SpaceShipTwo, scheduled for 2013. MacKay has over 30 years of regular flying experience, but like pretty much everybody, he’s wanted to fly spaceships since he was a kid.
I’m not jealous.
It’s nice, though; MacKay seems suitably geeked out over the project:
I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars. When I was 12, I saw the Apollo moon landings and I thought that was really fantastic and exciting and thought that’s what I want to do.
Nice job, astronaut Dave.
[Source :dailymail]
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