People Who Have Flown in Suborbital Spaceflight
35 entries in the People Who Have Flown in Suborbital Spaceflight compendium.
Michael J. AdamsFirst American space mission fatality.Sirisha BandlaAmerican aeronautical engineer and commercial astronaut on Unity 22.Trevor BeattieBritish advertising executive who flew on Virgin Galactic's Galactic 04.Colin Bennett (astronaut)Passenger on Virgin Galactic's Unity 22 suborbital flight.Lane BessVenture capitalist and founder of Bess Ventures and Advisory, LLC; flew twice with Blue Origin.Mark BezosHalf-brother of Jeff Bezos who flew on Blue Origin NS-16.Brian BinnieNavy officer and SpaceShipOne test pilot who won the Ansari X Prize.Aisha BoweBahamian American aerospace engineer and suborbital spaceflight participant.Emily CalandrelliScience communicator and suborbital spaceflight passenger.Coby CottonMember of the Dude Perfect sports comedy group.Victor Correa HespanhaSecond Brazilian in space; won trip via NFT raffle.Oliver DaemenDutch space tourist; youngest person to fly to space.William H. DanaX-15 pilot and lifting-body test pilot.Glen de VriesEntrepreneur, Medidata co-founder, suborbital space traveler.Ed DwightFirst African American in NASA astronaut training program; flew in 2024.Katya EchazarretaFirst Mexican-born woman in space.Kerianne FlynnFormer HR executive and film producer who flew on Blue Origin NS-31.Wally FunkFirst female air safety investigator and oldest woman in space.Hamish HardingBritish adventurer who flew on Blue Origin NS-21.Kenneth HessEngineer, entrepreneur, and suborbital space tourist.Gayle KingCBS journalist and spaceflight participant on Blue Origin NS-31.Jim KitchenFirst to visit all UN countries, space, and ocean deep.William J. KnightX-15 pilot who set a winged aircraft speed record and later served in California politics.Gary LaiArchitect of New Shepard who flew on its 20th mission.David Mackay (pilot)First native-born Scot to visit space.Oleg Makarov (cosmonaut)Soviet cosmonaut who flew four Soyuz missions.Michael MasucciVirgin Galactic test pilot and former U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel.John B. McKayAmerican test pilot and X-15 astronaut who flew above 295600 ft.Mike MelvillFirst commercial astronaut and X Prize pilot.Beth MosesFirst woman on a commercially launched suborbital spaceflight.Amanda NguyenActivist, astronaut, and first Vietnamese woman in space.Vanessa O'BrienFirst woman to complete the Explorers' Extreme Trifecta.Aleksey OvchininRussian cosmonaut who survived Soyuz MS-10 abort.Robert A. RushworthX-15 pilot with a record 34 flights.J. D. RussellEntrepreneur, spaceflight participant, and former law enforcement officer who flew two New Shepard missions.
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