Branson Reaches 282,000 Feet In First Full Passenger Virgin Galactic Flight - AVweb

Actually, I would say the commercial hype is deserved. The technical achievements might not be much (humans have known for a while know how to do human-rated suborbital flights), but packaging it in a format that has the OK from the FAA and is reasonably affordable to do multiple times with untrained passengers is an acheivement.