One More Orbit is a feature length documentary film which covers the pole-to-pole world circumnavigation speed record achieved by Action Aviation Chairman Capt. Hamish Harding and former Commander of the International Space Station, astronaut Col. Terry Virts in a Qatar Executive Gulfstream G650ER aircraft.
Launching from Kennedy Space Center on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the One More Orbit team completed the Guinness World Record-breaking flight on July 11, 2019, in 46 hours and 40 minutes, at the average speed of 465 miles per hour.
Pit stop-like speed refuels were achieved in Kazakhstan, Mauritius, and Chile. The mission covered 24,962 miles and beat the previous world record, from 11 years earlier, by five hours and 52 minutes.
The nine-member crew included:
- Capt. Hamish Harding, Chairman, Action Aviation of the United Kingdom.
- Col. Terry Virts (astronaut and former Commander of the International Space Station) of the United States.
- Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, (guest) of Russia.
- Capt. Jacob Bech (pilot) of Denmark.
- Capt. Jeremy Ascough (pilot) of South Africa.
- Capt. Yevgen Vasylenko (pilot) of Ukraine.
- Magdalena Starowicz (flight attendant) of Poland.
- Benjamin Rueger (lead engineer) of Germany.
- Jannicke Mikkelson (payload specialist, satellite live-streaming) of Norway.
“The achievements of the One More Orbit mission prove that what appears ‘impossible’ and against the odds may actually be attainable,” said Hamish Harding. “We hope our film will inspire viewers to reach never before heard of successes of their own.”
