{"id":694962,"date":"2021-07-02T01:14:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T05:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=694962"},"modified":"2021-07-02T01:14:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T05:14:24","slug":"jeff-bezos-is-headed-to-space-richard-branson-decided-to-beat-him-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=694962","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezos Is Headed To Space. Richard Branson Decided To Beat Him There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/ap21181629448957_wide-e970b9238898d00487c07435ab60a770f27612ba.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Branson, right, founder of Virgin Galactic. Branson announced Thursday that he plans to fly into space this month on the next test flight of his Virgin Galactic rocket ship. The launch window will open July 11.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Branson will be on board a July 11 flight of Virgin Galactic&#8217;s rocket ship, nine days before Bezos launches. But Bezos will have a record-setting female astronaut along for the ride: Wally Funk, 82.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Richard Drew\/AP)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/npr-rss-pixel-1.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/07\/02\/1012417310\/jeff-bezos-is-headed-to-space-richard-branson-decided-to-beat-him-there\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jeff Bezos Is Headed To Space. Richard Branson Decided To Beat Him There<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Branson will be on board a July 11 flight of Virgin Galactic&#8217;s rocket ship, nine days before Bezos launches. But Bezos will have a record-setting female astronaut along for the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694962","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694962\/revisions"}],"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=694962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}