List of fully civilian crewed suborbital spaceflights

Following the definition that a civilian is someone who is not part of their country's armed forces,[1] these are suborbital space flights with a fully civilian crew:

List
No. Mission Ship Date Crew[2] Result. Ref.
1 X-15 Flight 77 X-15 17.01.1963 Joseph Walker Success [3][4][5]
2 X-15 Flight 90 X-15 #3 19.07.1963 Joseph Walker Success [6][5]
3 X-15 Flight 91 X-15 22.08.1963 Joseph Walker Success [7][5]
4 X-15 Flight 150 X-15 22.09.1965 John B. McKay Success [8][9][5]
5 X-15 Flight 174 X-15 01.11.1966 William H. Dana Success [10][11][5]
6 X-15 Flight 197 X-15 21.08.1968 William H. Dana Success [12][13][5]
7 SpaceShipOne flight 15P SpaceShipOne 21.06.2004 Mike Melvill Success [14][5]
8 SpaceShipOne flight 16P SpaceShipOne 29.09.2004 Mike Melvill Success [15][5]
9 SpaceShipOne flight 17P SpaceShipOne 04.10.2004 Brian Binnie Success [16][5]
10 VSS Unity VP-03 VSS Unity 13.12.2018 Mark P. Stucky, Frederick Sturckow Success [17][5]
11 VSS Unity VF-01 VSS Unity 22.02.2019 David Mackay, Michael Masucci, Beth Moses Success [18][5]
12 Virgin Galactic Unity 21 VSS Unity 22.05.2021 Frederick Sturckow, David Mackay Success [5]
13 Virgin Galactic Unity 22 VSS Unity 11.06.2021 David Mackay, Michael Masucci, Sirisha Bandla, Colin Bennett, Beth Moses, Richard Branson Success [5]
14 Blue Origin NS-16 RSS First Step 20.07.2021 Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos, Wally Funk, Oliver Daemen Success [5]
15 Blue Origin NS-18 RSS First Step 13.10.2021 Audrey Powers, Chris Boshuizen, Glen de Vries, William Shatner Success [5]
16 Blue Origin NS-19 RSS First Step 11.12.2021 Michael Strahan, Laura Shepard-Churchley, Dylan Taylor, Lane Bess, Cameron Bess, Evan L. Dick Success [5]
17 Blue Origin NS-20 RSS First Step 30.03.2022 Marty Allen, Sharon Hagle, Marc Hagle, Jim Kitchen, George Nield, Gary Lai Success
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     Flights with space tourists.

See also

References
  1. "Crew Dragon has flown four more people—all private citizens—into space". 2021-09-15. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
  2. Jonathan McDowell (2021-10-09). "Jonathan's Space Report | Human Spaceflight: Rides". Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  3. "X-15 Flight No. 77". Spacefacts. 2018-04-26. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  4. Evans 2020, p. 20.
  5. Jonathan McDowell. "Suborbital spaceflights". Retrieved 2021-10-09.
  6. "Flight No. 90". Spacefacts. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  7. "Flight No. 91". Spacefacts. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  8. "X-15 Flight No. 150". Spacefacts. 2018-04-26. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  9. Evans 2020, p. 43.
  10. "X-15 Flight No. 174". Spacefacts. 2018-04-26. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  11. Evans 2020, p. 48.
  12. "X-15 Flight No. 197". Spacefacts. 2018-04-26. Retrieved 2020-08-08.
  13. Evans 2020, p. 52.
  14. "Flight No. 60L/15P". Spacefacts. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  15. "Flight No. 65L/16P". Spacefacts. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  16. "Flight No. 66L/17P". Spacefacts. Retrieved 2019-11-24.
  17. Grush, Loren (2018-12-13). "Virgin Galactic's spaceplane finally makes it to space for the first time". The Verge.
  18. Tribou, Richard (2019-02-22). "Virgin Galactic sends first test passenger on space flight". Orlando Sentinel.

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