Douglas Bennett Shane is President of The Spaceship Company, as well as an American test pilot who has trained as a commercial astronaut.
Shane worked as the operations director on the SpaceShipOne project in addition to being one of the program pilots,[2] and later served as President of Scaled Composites from 2008 through early 2013.
[citation needed] In 1982, Shane received a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Kansas.
[citation needed] In 1982, Shane joined Scaled Composites, in Mojave, California, as a test pilot and founding member.
[3] In June 2013, Shane joined The Spaceship Company (TSC) to become executive VP and general manager, ending a 31-year career with Scaled Composites, including five as president.