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The first private human spaceflight took place on 21 June 2004, when SpaceShipOne conducted a suborbital flight.
The first private human spaceflight launch was a suborbital flight on SpaceShipOne on June 21, 2004. The first commercial orbital crew launch was by SpaceX in May 2020, transporting, under government contract, astronauts to the ISS.
The Mercury-Redstone (MR-3) rocket on the pad before launch of the first American manned space flight. Alan Shepard, aboard the Mercury Freedom 7 spacecraft, launched into space on May 5, 1961.