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Loved the SpaceX guy on handover to NASA: "... and thank you for flying on Falcon today!"

Private space flight started with this flight.

> Private space flight started with this flight.

I hear Dennis Tito and Mike Melvill sighed.

That was both on government capsules.

> Private space flight started with this flight.

21 June 2004

That's wasn't private, that was on a government space ship.