While there are entrepreneurial pioneers in privately funded space flight, none has yet reached outer space.
The trend has even reached outer space: in December, Japanese astronaut Aki Hoshide took what might be the greatest selfie of all time at the International Space Station.
The spacecraft had its sail stored inside when it was launched before unfurling the sail when it reached outer space.
While it never actually reached outer space, the Enterprise conducted upper atmosphere test flights and actually flew over New York City in 1983.
Suborbital launches simply need to travel high enough to reach outer space (considered by many to be 100 kilometers, or 62 miles, above the Earth), and come back down to the ground.
The three-hour trip will take place on SpaceShipOne, the craft which won 2004′s $10 million Ansari X-prize for becoming the first private space craft to reach outer space twice in two weeks, and will depart from a remote section of the Mojave Desert.
While that's plenty high enough to say you've reached "outer space" (in fact, you're about 6 miles above the point where we draw that line) and you'll experience a good 6 minutes of weightlessness (and really, until we can reach other planets, isn't that what most people are looking for?), you're still a few hundred miles short of, say, the ISS.
The cost of healthcare, now in the stratosphere, will reach outer space.
An electron backscatter diffraction pattern from a nanometer sized area of the mineral zircon, like that which grew during the launch of the meteorite from Mars due to the cooling of melt pockets as it reached outer space.
Jean-Patrice Keka Ohemba Okese also known as the "African Einstein"—is a scientist and the founder of DTA, a company based out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that wants to build rockets that can reach outer space.
At that speed it's easy to visit all the scale models of the planets and reach Pluto (actually 6.4 miles) beyond which are the lifeless reaches of outer space, or Selby, depending on the way you look at it.
