Doug Shane

Douglas Bennett Shane is an American test pilot who trained as a commercial astronaut and is president of The Spaceship Company. He received a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering from the University of Kansas in 1982 and joined Scaled Composites at Mojave, California that year as a test pilot and founding member. After 1989 he was responsible for business development, contracts and flight test operations. He received the Iven C. Kincheloe Award in 1997 and is a past president of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. As director of flight operations he supervised the Ansari X Prize qualification flights in 2004 and was one of the four qualified SpaceShipOne pilots without flying any of them. He became president of Scaled Composites in June 2008, succeeding Burt Rutan, joined The Spaceship Company in 2013 and was promoted to its president in July 2014.