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.

Biography

In 1982, Shane received a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Kansas.

Shane built a Long-Ez he called the "Shane Runabout".

Scaled Composites

In 1982, Shane joined Scaled Composites, in Mojave, California, as a test pilot and founding member. After 1989, he was responsible for business development, contracts, and proposals, as well as the company's flight test operations.

He was promoted to president of TSC in July 2014.

See also

  • Scaled Composites
  • SpaceShipOne
  • The Spaceship Company

References

  • Scaled Composites biography
  • Biography on Encyclopedia Astronautica
  • List of American Astronauts
  • Auction entry for Shane signature under category "Astronaut Autographs"
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