Over the past few decades, several people have paid a lot of money to go to space. These people are often called "space tourists" or "spaceflight participants" and stay in orbit for several days or for several minutes during suborbital spaceflights. A suborbital spaceflight is a spaceflight in which the spacecraft reaches space, but its trajectory intersects the atmosphere or surface of the gravitating body from which it was launched, so that it does not complete one orbital revolution. SpaceShipOne, developed by Scaled Composites, was the first private spacecraft to take pilots into space for several minutes. Today, companies such as Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic offer short-term space travel for a fee. In this overview you can learn all about the different people who went to space for a short time during suborbital spaceflights!
Overview suborbital space tourists
| Name | Photo | Company | Date launch | Flight time | Rocket | Spacecraft | Mission / Destination | Fee paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mike Melvill |
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21/06/2004 29/09/2004 |
24m 25m |
SpaceShipOne | SpaceShipOne SpaceShipOne |
Flight 15P Flight 16P |
? |
Mark P. Stucky |
 |
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13/12/2018 | 24m | SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity | VSS Unity VP-03 | ? |
| Brian Binnie |
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04/10/2004 | 24m | SpaceShipOne | SpaceShipOne | Flight 17P | ? |
| Beth Moses |
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22/02/2019 22/05/2021 |
26m 26m |
SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity VSS Unity |
VSS Unity VF-01 VSS Unity 22 |
? |
Richard Branson |
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22/05/2021 | 26m | SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity | VSS Unity 22 | ? |
Sirisha Bandla |
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22/05/2021 | 26m | SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity | VSS Unity 22 | ? |
| Jeff Bezos |
 |
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20/07/2021 | 11m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-16 | ? |
| Mark Bezos |
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20/07/2021 | 11m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-16 | ? |
| Wally Funk |
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20/07/2021 | 11m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-16 | ? |
Oliver Daemen |
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20/07/2021 | 11m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-16 | ? |
| Chris Boshuizen |
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13/10/2021 | 11m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-18 | ? |
| Glen de Vries |
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13/10/2021 | 11m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-18 | ? |
| William Shatner |
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11/12/2021 | 11m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-18 | ? |
| Michael Strahan |
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11/12/2021 | 11m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-19 | ? |
| Laura Shepard Churchley |
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11/12/2021 | 11m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-19 | ? |
| Dylan Taylor |
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11/12/2021 | 11m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-19 | ? |
| Cameron Bess |
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11/12/2021 | 11m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-19 | ? |
| Lane Bess |
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11/12/2021 | 11m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-19 | ? |
| Marty Allen |
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31/03/2022 | 10m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-20 | ? |
| Sharon Hagle |
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31/03/2022 | 10m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-20 | ? |
| Marc Hagle |
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31/03/2022 | 10m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-20 | ? |
| Jim Kitchen |
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31/03/2022 | 10m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-20 | ? |
| George Nield |
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31/03/2022 | 10m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-20 | ? |
| Gary Lai |
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31/03/2022 | 10m | New Shepard | RSS First Step | NS-20 | ? |
Nicola Pecile |
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29/06/2023 | 14m | SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity | Galactic 01 | ? |
| Walter Villadei |
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29/06/2023 | 14m | SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity | Galactic 01 | ? |
| Pantaleone Carlucci |
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29/06/2023 | 14m | SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity | Galactic 01 | ? |
| Angelo Landolfi |
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29/06/2023 | 14m | SpaceShipTwo | VSS Unity | Galactic 01 | ? |
Images: Scaled Composites / Blue Origin / Virgin Galactic
