Re: research project

["J. Fox" <fox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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