Virgin Galactic is currently flying SpaceShipTwo, which would be capable of carrying six passengers and two pilots.
The one year permit grants the company permission to begin rocket-powered suborbital test flights.
For now all flights will still only be done by pilots, but expectations are for passengers to start going up sometime in 2013.
Over five hundred people have already booked flights, at the price of $200,000 a ticket.
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