SS1 became the world's first private spaceship with a series of high-altitude flights in 2004.

It successfully challenged teams to build private spaceships capable of carrying three people and fly two times within two weeks to open the space frontier.

There were no private or misplaced spaceships on Hyperion.

Rutan figures that private spaceships will be going there before long, so he'd rather see NASA concentrate on ways to reach Mars.

You say you're aboard a private spaceship.

The X PRIZE was created to fund and operate a $10 million incentive competition intended to inspire a new generation of private passenger-carrying spaceships.

Nasa has allocated $270m to four firms that build private spaceships.

Also, General Hawkins can get some satellites and the private spaceships he's contracted with into space and be ready to record when we do take off.

Though suborbital, the first private manned spaceship, SpaceShipOne had reduced rocket performance requirements due to being a combined system with its air launch.

Greene made a point of familiarizing himself with all makes of spaceships, naval, civil and private.