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Peter Siebold

Peter Siebold (born 1971) is a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team. He is their Vice President of Flight Operations, and was one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo, the experimental spaceplanes developed by the company. On April 8, 2004, Siebold piloted the second powered test flight of SpaceShipOne, flight 13P, which reached a top speed of Mach 1.6 and an altitude of . On October 31, 2014, Siebold and Michael Alsbury were piloting the SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise on flight PF04, when the craft came apart in mid-air and then crashed, killing Alsbury and injuring Siebold. Siebold is the only person in history to have survived an in-flight spacecraft breakup, having fallen 50,000 feet (15,000 m) upon breakup, with his parachute deploying automatically at about 20,000 feet.

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Peter Siebold (born 1971) is a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team. He is their Vice President of Flight Operations, and was one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo, the experimental spaceplanes developed by the company. On April 8, 2004, Siebold piloted the second powered test flight of SpaceShipOne, flight 13P, which reached a top speed of Mach 1.6 and an altitude of . On October 31, 2014, Siebold and Michael Alsbury were piloting the SpaceShipTwo VSS Enterprise on flight PF04, when the craft came apart in mid-air and then crashed, killing Alsbury and injuring Siebold. Siebold is the only person in history to have survived an in-flight spacecraft breakup, having fallen 50,000 feet (15,000 m) upon breakup, with his parachute deploying automatically at about 20,000 feet.

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  1. date of birth: 1971 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of birth is "1971". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378504074

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