<Ul> <Li> Blue Origin is developing the New Shepard reusable suborbital launch system specifically to enable short - duration space tourism . </Li> <Li> On October 4, 2004, SpaceShipOne, designed by Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites, won the $10,000,000 X Prize, which was designed to be won by the first private company who could reach and surpass an altitude of 100 km (62 mi) twice within two weeks . The altitude is beyond the Kármán Line, the arbitrarily defined boundary of space . The first flight was flown by Michael Melvill on June 21, 2004, to a height of 100 km (62 mi), making him the first commercial astronaut . The prize - winning flight was flown by Brian Binnie, which reached a height of 112.0 km (69.6 mi), breaking the X-15 record . </Li> <Li> Virgin Galactic, headed by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, hopes to be the first to offer regular suborbital spaceflights to paying passengers, aboard a fleet of five SpaceShipTwo - class spaceplanes . The first of these spaceplanes, VSS Enterprise, was intended to commence its first commercial flights in spring 2015, and tickets were on sale at a price of $200,000 (later raised to $250,000). However, the company suffered a considerable setback when the Enterprise broke up over the Mojave Desert during a test flight in October 2014 . Over 700 tickets had been sold prior to the accident . A second spaceplane, VSS Unity, has begun testing . </Li> <Li> XCOR Aerospace was developing a suborbital vehicle called Lynx until development was halted in May 2016 . The Lynx will take off from a runway under rocket power . Unlike SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo, Lynx will not require a mothership . Lynx is designed for rapid turnaround, which will enable it to fly up to four times per day . Because of this rapid flight rate, Lynx has fewer seats than SpaceShipTwo, carrying only one pilot and one spaceflight participant on each flight . XCOR expect to roll out the first Lynx prototype and begin flight tests in 2015 . It was hoped that Lynx would carry paying customers before the end of 2016 . <Ul> <Li> Citizens in Space, formerly the Teacher in Space Project, is a project of the United States Rocket Academy . Citizens in Space combines citizen science with citizen space exploration . The goal is to fly citizen - science experiments and citizen explorers (who travel free) who will act as payload operators on suborbital space missions . By 2012, Citizens in Space had acquired a contract for 10 suborbital flights with XCOR Aerospace and expected to acquire additional flights from XCOR and other suborbital spaceflight providers in the future . In 2012 Citizens in Space reported they had begun training three citizen astronaut candidates and would select seven additional candidates over the next 12 to 14 months . </Li> <Li> Space Expedition Corporation was preparing to use the Lynx for "Space Expedition Curaçao", a commercial flight from Hato Airport on Curaçao, and planned to start commercial flights in 2014 . The costs were $95,000 each . </Li> </Ul> </Li> <Li> Armadillo Aerospace was developing a two - seat vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) rocket called Hyperion, which will be marketed by Space Adventures . Hyperion uses a capsule similar in shape to the Gemini capsule . The vehicle will use a parachute for descent but will probably use retrorockets for final touchdown, according to remarks made by Armadillo Aerospace at the Next Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference in February 2012 . The assets of Armadillo Aerospace were sold to Exos Aerospace and while SARGE is continuing to be developed, it is unclear whether Hyperion is still being developed . </Li> <Li> EADS Astrium, a subsidiary of European aerospace giant EADS, announced its space tourism project on June 13, 2007 . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Blue Origin is developing the New Shepard reusable suborbital launch system specifically to enable short - duration space tourism . </Li> <Li> On October 4, 2004, SpaceShipOne, designed by Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites, won the $10,000,000 X Prize, which was designed to be won by the first private company who could reach and surpass an altitude of 100 km (62 mi) twice within two weeks . The altitude is beyond the Kármán Line, the arbitrarily defined boundary of space . The first flight was flown by Michael Melvill on June 21, 2004, to a height of 100 km (62 mi), making him the first commercial astronaut . The prize - winning flight was flown by Brian Binnie, which reached a height of 112.0 km (69.6 mi), breaking the X-15 record . </Li> <Li> Virgin Galactic, headed by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group, hopes to be the first to offer regular suborbital spaceflights to paying passengers, aboard a fleet of five SpaceShipTwo - class spaceplanes . The first of these spaceplanes, VSS Enterprise, was intended to commence its first commercial flights in spring 2015, and tickets were on sale at a price of $200,000 (later raised to $250,000). However, the company suffered a considerable setback when the Enterprise broke up over the Mojave Desert during a test flight in October 2014 . Over 700 tickets had been sold prior to the accident . A second spaceplane, VSS Unity, has begun testing . </Li>

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