The first person to fly on an entirely privately funded mission was Mike Melvill , piloting SpaceShipOne flight 15P on a suborbital journey .
Person was a person   employed by Scaled Composites and not an actual paying space tourist .
The first person to fly on an entirely privately funded mission was Mike Melvill , piloting SpaceShipOne flight 15P on a suborbital journey , although he was a test pilot employed by Scaled Composites and not an actual paying space tourist .