Who was the first person to travel into space on a privately owned spacecraft?

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SpaceShipOne Makes History: First Manned Private Spaceflight June 21, 2004 The first non-governmental rocket ship flew to the edge of space today and was piloted to a safe landing on a desert airport runway here. Civilian test pilot, now turned astronaut Mike Melvill brought SpaceShipOne down to the Mojave Airport tarmac after flying to 100 kilometers (62 miles) in altitude, leaving the Earth's atmosphere during his history-making sub-orbital space ride. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/SS1_touchdown_040621.html Sep 29 04, 12:47 PM

rlaj	Melvil is correct! He did it again today. http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/09/29/spaceshipone.attempt.cnn/index.html Sep 29 04, 12:55 PM

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