Wasn't all fun and games...
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996052 says
"'Anomalies' in first private spaceflight revealed
12:27 22 June 04
NewScientist.com news service
The flight of the first private astronaut was not as perfect as it first appeared – a number of glitches occurred during the flight, some potentially catastrophic.
The revelations were made by Burt Rutan, designer of SpaceShipOne, which on Monday became the world's first privately funded craft to enter space. Until the team fully understands exactly what went wrong during the flight, he said, they will not go ahead with the pair of flights needed to claim the $10 million Ansari X-Prize.
Luckily, the glitches did not prevent a successful flight. But pilot Mike Melvill said that a partial failure of the system controlling the spacecraft's orientation could have been disastrous if it had occurred just slightly earlier in the flight"
The article goes on to discuss problems with attitude and uncontrolled rolling at various stages in the flight, and I read elsewhere that they only got some 200 metres above the 'start of space' height - and I don't know the tolerances on how they measured that. So perhaps they're not sure themselves that they made it (not that it particularly matters).
Apparently, it's still quite dangerous to strap yourself into a home-made rocket and head on up to space at Mach 3,2!
R