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Commercial Suborbital Spaceflight
Blue Origin's autonomous vertical-launch New Shepard and Virgin Galactic's piloted air-launched VSS Unity created distinct operational paths for private passengers, researchers, educators, and professional crew to experience suborbital spaceflight.
- Missions
- 39
- People
- 134
- Vehicles
- 4
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Choose a path through the Commercial Suborbital Spaceflight archive.
Commercial Suborbital Spaceflight timeline
39 flights. One complete program record.
Follow every archived flight from the earliest development test through the program’s latest flown mission, with its defining milestones and mission hardware connected along the way.
Defining milestones
The turning points that shaped this program and its legacy.
2018 · Unity reaches spaceVSS Unity VP-03Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity completed its first spaceflight.Explore milestone →- 2021 · New Shepard carries peopleNS-16Blue Origin completed its first human flight above the Kármán line.3-year leapExplore milestone →
- 2023 · Commercial research serviceGalactic 01Virgin Galactic began commercial operations with an Italian research crew.2-year leapExplore milestone →
- 2026 · New Shepard reaches 98 seatsNS-38The active program completed its seventeenth crewed mission.3-year leapExplore milestone →
Every Commercial Suborbital Spaceflight program record
All 39 flown and non-flight archive records arranged chronologically.
Launch corridor
39 flights and tests compressed into 3 expandable arcs.
- Arc 01Ignition2004–2022 · 20 records
- Arc 02On orbit2023–2025 · 18 records
- Arc 03Final approach2026 · 1 records
Flight arc 01IgnitionSpaceShipOne 15P → NS-222004–2022 · 20 records2004–2022
20 records
June 21, 2004SpaceShipOne 15P001
September 29, 2004SpaceShipOne 16P002
October 4, 2004SpaceShipOne 17P003
April 29, 2013VSS Enterprise PF01004
September 5, 2013VSS Enterprise PF02005
January 10, 2014VSS Enterprise PF03006
October 31, 2014VSS Enterprise PF04007
April 5, 2018VSS Unity Powered Test 1008
May 29, 2018VSS Unity Powered Test 2009
July 26, 2018VSS Unity Powered Test 3010
December 13, 2018VSS Unity VP-03011
February 22, 2019VSS Unity VF-01012
May 22, 2021Unity 21013
July 11, 2021Unity 22014
July 20, 2021NS-16015
October 13, 2021NS-18016
December 11, 2021NS-19017
March 31, 2022NS-20018
June 4, 2022NS-21019
August 4, 2022NS-22020
Flight arc 02On orbitUnity 25 → NS-372023–2025 · 18 records2023–2025
18 records
May 25, 2023Unity 25021
June 29, 2023Galactic 01022
August 10, 2023Galactic 02023
September 8, 2023Galactic 03024
October 6, 2023Galactic 04025
November 2, 2023Galactic 05026
January 26, 2024Galactic 06027
May 19, 2024NS-25028
June 8, 2024Galactic 07029
August 29, 2024NS-26030
November 22, 2024NS-28031
February 25, 2025NS-30032
April 14, 2025NS-31033
May 31, 2025NS-32034
June 29, 2025NS-33035
August 3, 2025NS-34036
October 8, 2025NS-36037
December 20, 2025NS-37038
