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Suborbital flight
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Sub-orbital spaceflight.
Crewed vertically-launched suborbital flights
Most manned rocket flights were either orbital spaceflights or flights of rocket-powered aircraft, which were launched horizontally. Manned vertically launched suborbital flights were before the first launch of New Shepard rare and often the result of a failure of a manned rocket for orbital spaceflight. The following list shows all manned vertically launched suborbital rocket flights.