Objective of Flight Mission: Celebrating 50th anniversary of Apollo Mission and 500th year of Ferdinand Magellan’s first circumnavigation around the globe

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Flight Name: Gulfstream G650 ER (Business Class Jet from Qatar )

Takeoff: July 9 2019/ 07:01 PM IST

Mission Crew Pilots:

Capt.Hamish Harding (UK)

NASA Astronaut Col.Terry Virts (USA).(rtd)

Russian cosmonaut Col. Gennady Padalka.

Duration: 47hrs(flight time)+ Refueling (130 minutes)

Mission Circumnavigation:

Kennedy Space Center(USA)- North Pole- TSE airport(Kazakhstan)- MRU airport (Mauritius)- SouthPole -PUG Airport (Chile) -Kennedy Space Center.

Flight Path

Flight Speed

The average speed is calculated based on the Great Circle distance – 21,691 nautical miles (40,172km). But real flight planned routes are never quite as direct & OMO is currently 22,328 nm (41,351km).

To break the record the team needs to do average speed of 831 km/hr with the target speed of 838 km/hr

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Mission Crew (One More Orbit)



Flight Configuration

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