This is the data behind our Space Tourism Flight Timeline, published as a free, machine-readable dataset. It lists every milestone space tourism and private-astronaut flight from 2001 to today — the firsts, the records, the turning points — not a complete log of every ticket sold. Every entry carries a source and a date, and the file is regenerated whenever the timeline is updated, so what you download is always current, not a snapshot.
This is a curated compilation: the flights themselves are public record, each carrying its own source. What we maintain — and what’s licensed here under CC BY 4.0, free to reuse with a link back — is the selection, standardization, dating, and upkeep of that timeline. We don’t claim to own the underlying facts.
A single JSON object with a short header (name, publisher, license, curation basis) and one array:
flights — the 13 milestone flights, each with its date, mission name, operator, flight type (orbital or suborbital), the milestone it set, and the source it was verified against.This is not a complete flight log — Blue Origin alone has flown dozens of New Shepard missions since 2021, most carrying a similar mix of paying passengers to a similar few minutes above the Kármán line. We include only the flights that set a record, opened a market, or were a genuine first: the first paying tourist, the first woman, the first all-civilian crew, the first private spacewalk. The full curation standard, and every flight’s own source link, are on the Flight Timeline itself.
The file is rebuilt from the same source of truth as the Flight Timeline on every deploy, so it never drifts from the live page. It currently tracks 13 milestone flights across 5 operators, 2001–2026. For the filterable, sourced version, see the Flight Timeline itself.
A ready-to-use citation for our compilation and maintenance work:
Outer Space Trip. (2026). Space Tourism Flight Timeline. Retrieved from https://outerspacetrip.com/guides/space-tourism-timeline/
Questions, corrections, or a use case we should know about? Email inquiries@outerspacetrip.com.