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Hamish Harding

BO · British · Private · Occasional Spaceflight

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Career record

Flights
1
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
10m
Career EVA time
under a minute
Spacewalks
0

Biography

Hamish was Chairman of Action Aviation, a business jet brokerage company he founded in 2004, and also a business jet pilot. In 2019, he and former International Space Station Commander Col. Terry Virts broke the Round-the-World record in a Gulfstream G650ER for any aircraft flying over the North and South poles. In addition to holding several aviation world records, Hamish has travelled to the South Pole twice, and in 2021 dived the Challenger Deep with Victor Vescovo to a depth of 36,000 ft in a two-person sub. Hamish passed away on June 18th 2023 aboard the OceanGate Titan submersible while conducting a dive to the Titanic.

Biography from Launch Library 2.

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Born 1964-06-24 · died 2023-06-18