List of fully civilian crewed suborbital spaceflights

Following the definition that a civilian is someone who is not part of their country's armed forces (not in active duty; former service or reservist status is not considered being part of armed forces),^[1] these are suborbital space flights (spaceflight according to US 50 mile space boundary definition) with a fully civilian crew:

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No.	Mission	Ship	Date	Crew^[2]	Result.	Ref.
1	X-15 Flight 77	X-15	17.01.1963	Joseph Walker	Success	^[3]^[4]^[5]
2	X-15 Flight 90	X-15 #3	19.07.1963	Joseph Walker	Success	^[6]^[5]
3	X-15 Flight 91	X-15	22.08.1963	Joseph Walker	Success	^[7]^[5]
4	X-15 Flight 150	X-15	22.09.1965	John B. McKay	Success	^[8]^[9]^[5]
5	X-15 Flight 174	X-15	01.11.1966	William H. Dana	Success	^[10]^[11]^[5]
6	X-15 Flight 197	X-15	21.08.1968	William H. Dana	Success	^[12]^[13]^[5]
7	SpaceShipOne flight 15P	SpaceShipOne	21.06.2004	Mike Melvill	Success	^[14]^[5]
8	SpaceShipOne flight 16P	SpaceShipOne	29.09.2004	Mike Melvill	Success	^[15]^[5]
9	SpaceShipOne flight 17P	SpaceShipOne	04.10.2004	Brian Binnie	Success	^[16]^[5]
10	VSS Unity VP-03	VSS Unity	13.12.2018	Mark P. Stucky, Frederick Sturckow	Success	^[17]^[5]
11	VSS Unity VF-01	VSS Unity	22.02.2019	David Mackay, Michael Masucci, Beth Moses	Success	^[18]^[5]
12	Virgin Galactic Unity 21	VSS Unity	22.05.2021	Frederick Sturckow, David Mackay	Success	^[5]
13	Virgin Galactic Unity 22	VSS Unity	11.06.2021	David Mackay, Michael Masucci, Sirisha Bandla, Colin Bennett, Beth Moses, Richard Branson	Success	^[5]
14	Blue Origin NS-16	RSS First Step	20.07.2021	Jeff Bezos, Mark Bezos, Wally Funk, Oliver Daemen	Success	^[5]
15	Blue Origin NS-18	RSS First Step	13.10.2021	Audrey Powers, Chris Boshuizen, Glen de Vries, William Shatner	Success	^[5]
16	Blue Origin NS-19	RSS First Step	11.12.2021	Michael Strahan, Laura Shepard-Churchley, Dylan Taylor, Lane Bess, Cameron Bess, Evan L. Dick	Success	^[5]
17	Blue Origin NS-20	RSS First Step	30.03.2022	Marty Allen, Sharon Hagle, Marc Hagle, Jim Kitchen, George Nield, Gary Lai	Success	^[19]
18	Blue Origin NS-21	RSS First Step	04.06.2022	Evan Dick, Katya Echazarreta, Hamish Harding, Victor Correa Hespanha, Jaison Robinson, Victor Vescovo	Success	^[19]
19	Blue Origin NS-22	RSS First Step	04.08.2022	Coby Cotton, Mário Ferreira, Vanessa O'Brien, Clint Kelly III, Sara Sabry, Steve Young	Success	^[19]
20	Unity 25	VSS Unity	25.05.2023	Michael Masucci, Frederick Sturckow, Beth Moses, Luke Mays, Jamila Gilbert, Christopher Huie	Success	^[19]
21	Galactic 02	VSS Unity	10.08.2023	Frederick Sturckow, Kelly Latimer, Beth Moses, Jon Goodwin, Keisha Schahaff, Anastatia Mayers	Success	^[20]
21	Galactic 03	VSS Unity	08.09.2023	Michael Masucci, Beth Moses, Adrian Reynard, Nicole Pecile, Ken Baxter, / Timothy Nash	Success	^[21]
21	Galactic 04	VSS Unity	06.10.2023	Frederick Sturckow, Kelly Latimer, Beth Moses, Trevor Beattie, Namira Salim, Ron Rosano	Success	^[22]
21	Galactic 05	VSS Unity	02.11.2023	Michael Masucci, Kelly Latimer, Colin Bennett, Alan Stern, Kellie Gerardi, Ketty Maisonrouge	Success	^[23]
21	Galactic 06	VSS Unity	26.01.2024	Frederick Sturckow, Nicola Pecile, / Lina Borozdina, Robie Vaughn, Franz Haider, Neil Kornswiet	Success	^[24]
22	Blue Origin NS-25	RSS First Step	19.05.2024	Mason Angel, Sylvain Chiron, Ed Dwight, Carol Schaller, Kenneth Hess, Thotakura Gopichand	Success	^[25]
23	Galactic 07	VSS Unity	08.06.2024	Jameel Janjua, Nicola Pecile, Irving Pergament, Andy Sadhwani, Tuva Cihangir Atasever, Giorgio Manenti	Success	^[26]^[27]
24	Blue Origin NS-26	RSS First Step	29.08.2024	/ Nicolina Elrick, Karsen Kitchen, Rob Ferl, Eugene Grin, / Eiman Jahangir, / Ephraim Rabin	Success	^[28]
25	Blue Origin NS-28	RSS First Step	22.11.2024	Emily Calandrelli, Sharon Hagle, Marc Hagle, Austin Litteral, James (J.D.) Russell, Henry Wolfond	Success
26	Blue Origin NS-30	RSS First Step	25.02.2025	Lane Bess, Jesús Calleja, Tushar Shah, Dr. Richard Scott, Elaine Chia Hyde, Russell Wilson	Success
26	Blue Origin NS-31	RSS Karman Line	14.04.2025	/ Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen, Gayle King, Katy Perry, Kerianne Flynn, Lauren Sánchez	Success	^[29]
26	Blue Origin NS-32	RSS First Step	31.05.2025	Mark Rocket, Jaime Alemán, Aymette (Amy) Medina Jorge, Dr. Gretchen Green, Jesse Williams, Paul Jeris	Success
26	Blue Origin NS-33	RSS First Step	29.06.2025	Allie Kuehner, Carl Kuehner, Leland Larson, Freddie Rescigno, Jr., Owolabi Salis, James (Jim) Sitkin	Success
26	Blue Origin NS-34	RSS First Step	03.08.2025	James (J.D.) Russell, Deborah Martorell, H.E. Justin Sun, Gökhan Erdem, Lionel Pitchford, Arvinder (Arvi) Singh Bahal	Success
27	Blue Origin NS-36	RSS First Step	08.10.2025	Clint Kelly III, Aaron Newman, Jeff Elgin, Vitalii Ostrovsky, Danna Karagussova, William H. Lewis	Success

List of fully civilian crewed suborbital spaceflights

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