{"id":583396,"date":"2019-02-22T13:53:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T17:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=9d8ba61174795299582642d05e84b8be"},"modified":"2019-02-22T18:25:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T22:25:08","slug":"bransons-virgin-galactic-takes-another-step-toward-space-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=583396","title":{"rendered":"Branson&#8217;s Virgin Galactic takes another step toward space tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Virgin Galactic rocket plane on Friday soared to the edge of space with a test passenger for the first time, nudging British billionaire Richard Branson\u2019s company closer to its goal of suborbital flights for space tourists.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=qVaj0uk4ZSA:X0MP2-OdGxw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=qVaj0uk4ZSA:X0MP2-OdGxw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=qVaj0uk4ZSA:X0MP2-OdGxw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=qVaj0uk4ZSA:X0MP2-OdGxw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=qVaj0uk4ZSA:X0MP2-OdGxw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~4\/qVaj0uk4ZSA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Virgin Galactic rocket plane on Friday soared to the edge of space with a test passenger for the first time, nudging British billionaire Richard Branson&rsquo;s company closer to its goal of suborbital flights for space tourists.<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=qVaj0uk4ZSA:X0MP2-OdGxw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=qVaj0uk4ZSA:X0MP2-OdGxw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=qVaj0uk4ZSA:X0MP2-OdGxw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=qVaj0uk4ZSA:X0MP2-OdGxw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?i=qVaj0uk4ZSA:X0MP2-OdGxw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~4\/qVaj0uk4ZSA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583396","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583501,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583396\/revisions\/583501"}],"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=583396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}