Five years after SpaceShipOne, created by Scaled Composites, won the X Prize—flying a private spaceship on two manned flights within two weeks—the private space industry may be poised for it’s next big step: paying passengers on private spaceships.
Conceding that private spaceflight has taken longer than expected, X Prize founder Peter Diamandis says “as many as [...]

Original Mercury astronauts flew solo flights. The early Soviet cosmonauts also went into space alone. Then, after the fatal Soyuz flight of Vladimir Komarov, single passenger flights came to a halt.
Bigger spacecraft, bigger crews
NASA’s Gemini was a two-man spacecraft. Apollo carried three. And Soyuz, after Soyuz 1, normally carried three cosmonauts.
Still, others were alone in space. [...]

In October 2004, Scaled Compsites‘ private vehicle, SpaceshipOne, won the XPrize by making two successful piloted sub-orbital flights into space.
There were 26 competitors for the prize, and only one winner. What happened to the others?
Only a few left

In September 2005, The Space Review ran an article on what happened to the unsucessful competitors. At that [...]