Colin joined Virgin Galactic in 2015 and is currently an Astronaut Instructor. He has a served a number of roles across the organization, gaining a wide range experience. He started as a Flight Control Expert, then moved into the Aerodynamics Team, led the Payload Integration Team from a technical perspective and is now finishing training to become a Flight Director. Before joining Virgin Galactic, Colin, spent four years in the Flight Operations Team at Virgin Atlantic and prior to that was part of Flight Test for the UK’s Ministry of Defense. Through these roles he has accumulated flying hours as a Flight Test Engineer across aircrafts including commercial airliners, Chinook helicopters, and the Virgin Galactic mothership, VMS Eve. He studied Aerospace Engineering at the University of Liverpool and is a qualified pilot. Caption courtesy of Virgin Galactic.