{"id":557306,"date":"2018-12-13T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T21:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=4b68451f3810ae059212c4d82a2adfd1"},"modified":"2018-12-13T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T21:55:13","slug":"an-indescribable-feeling-virgin-galactic-makes-historic-trip-to-edge-of-space-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=557306","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;An Indescribable Feeling&#8217;: Virgin Galactic Makes Historic Trip To Edge Of Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2018\/12\/13\/gettyimages-1072502836_wide-6bbbd834e9d689c456b833b7a10d3f155e88dc76.jpg?s=600' alt='Observers watch Virgin Galactic's SpaceshipTwo take off for a suborbital test flight of the VSS Unity in Mojave, Calif. The company marked a major milestone Thursday as Unity made it to a peak height of more than 51 miles, meeting the Federal Aviation Administration's definition of spaceflight.'\/><\/p>\n<p>Four years after another test flight ended tragically, the company is celebrating a milestone: Its manned spacecraft reached an altitude of more than 51 miles.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Gene Blevins\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/media.npr.org\/include\/images\/tracking\/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=676436669' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years after another test flight ended tragically, the company is celebrating a milestone: Its manned spacecraft reached an altitude of more than 51 miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-557306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=557306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557308,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557306\/revisions\/557308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}