Michael Tyner Alsbury (March 19, 1975 – October 31, 2014) was an American test pilot for Scaled Composites. He died on October 31, 2014, during test flight PF04 of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise .

Nov 2, 2014 · Mike Alsbury, 39, died when Virgin Galactic's prototype reusable space plane apparently broke apart in midair over the Mojave Desert during a test flight on Friday.

Nov 4, 2014 · Friends say Michael Alsbury, who died last Friday in the crash of the SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, was living his aviation dream as a test pilot for Virgin Galactic.

On October 31, 2014, at 39 years of age, Michael T. Alsbury made the ultimate sacrifice and lost his life in pursuit of making real the dream of space-travel for all humankind.

Nov 13, 2014 · LANCASTER, Calif. — Friends and co-workers paid tribute on Thursday to test pilot Michael Alsbury, who lost his life when the SpaceShipTwo rocket plane broke up nearly two weeks ago.

Jan 25, 2020 · More than five years after his death in a space plane crash, Michael Alsbury's illuminated name now glows on the 43-by-50-foot black granite Space Mirror Memorial honoring fallen...

On October 31, 2014, at 39 years of age, Michael T. Alsbury made the ultimate sacrifice and lost his life in pursuit of making real the dream of space travel for all humankind. His name was added to the Space Mirror Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center in January 2020.

Nov 2, 2014 · TEHACHAPI, Calif. -- Michael Alsbury, who was killed in the test flight of Virgin Galactic's prototype space tourism rocket, was a respected test pilot and devoted husband...

Nov 3, 2014 · Alsbury, who was 39, died during a failed powered test flight of Virgin Galactic's space plane above California's Mojave Desert. The accident destroyed...

In his private life Mike Alsbury was a down-to-earth man, but at work he was precisely the opposite: a rocket-ship test pilot helping to make Sir Richard Branson’s dream of commercial space tourism become a reality.