Manned space flight changed forever on 21 June 2004.

On that date, Mike Melvill, chief test pilot for Scaled Composites of Mojave, California, earned his astronaut wings flying the first private (non-government sponsored) spacecraft to an altitude of 100 km (62 miles).

X-Prize competition ended on 4 October 2004 when Scaled Composites completed the second of two X-Prize flights. The first flight occurred 29 September 2004.

The Da Vinci Project project, which had been the closest competing team, had scheduled it's first flight for 2 October 2004. This flight has been indefinitely postponed.

Since the conclusion of the original X-Prize, a number of companies are pursuing tourist space flight. Information will appear on these pages as it develops.

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