Peter Siebold

Peter Siebold

Peter Siebold is the only person to have survived a deadly spaceship disaster. He is their Director of Flight Operations at Scaled Composites, an American aerospace company. In 2014, Siebold and his copilot were piloting VSS Enterprise when the spacecraft came apart mid-air and killed his copilot. Peter Siebold survived a fall from 50,000 ft, 30,000 of which was in freefall, at a speed of Mach 1.

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