[1] The crew consisted of pilots David Mackay and Michael Masucci as well as passengers Sirisha Bandla, Colin Bennett, Beth Moses, and Richard Branson.

[3][note 1] In the following days, rumors began to spread that Richard Branson was filing paperwork to make a similar suborbital flight as part of his own private enterprise, beating Bezos to claim the above mentioned first achievements.

There has been debate whether Virgin Galactic, which gets close to, but possibly does not reach, the Kármán line, would in fact be achieving such a first commercial private flight to space.

[4] The United States and NASA defines the border of space to be 50 miles (80.5 km) above sea level (which is approximately the minimum possible altitude a satellite on a highly elliptical Earth orbit can reach and sustain its velocity).

The facts are the pilots failed to trim to achieve the proper pitch rate, the winds were well within limits, they did nothing of substance to address the trajectory error, and entered Class A airspace without authorization.