Re: research project
Hello Gary,
To my knowledge, the only company actually working with pilot recruiting is
Virgin Galactic. In talking with Alex Tai several months ago, he told me
that they had many applicants from the military, commercial, and space
industries applying for Virgin's initial line up. He also said, and as was
recently brought out in several news articles, that Virgin intends to focus
future recruiting efforts on current airline pilots for Virgin's several
airline companies.
As far as I know, there are no private companies working on pilot selection
or recruiting for orbital flights. I would expect that as private
spaceflight develops, future orbital pilots will be selected from a growing
base of experienced sub-orbital pilots, and that the career path will go
from a company's airline pilots, to their sub-orbital pilots, and finally
to a position as an orbital pilot.
Research for my master's thesis involved sub-orbital space tourism, so I am
fairly well acquainted with the state of the industry.
Regards,
Jon
At 02:29 PM 6/19/2006 -0400, you wrote:
Hello all,
I am doing a research project on pilot careers in the commercial
spaceflight industry. I would like some links to companies involved in
such enterprises particularly in the orbital sector. Thank you.
-Garry
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