{"id":696516,"date":"2021-07-20T09:13:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T13:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=696516"},"modified":"2021-07-20T09:13:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T13:13:42","slug":"liftoff-jeff-bezos-and-three-crewmates-head-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=696516","title":{"rendered":"Liftoff! Jeff Bezos And Three Crewmates Head To Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/gettyimages-1329685721_wide-2f1a7c9df82b36d9c589efe1080f56a9c617db94.jpg\" alt=\"People watch on a television screen as the New Shepard Blue Origin rocket sits on the launch pad before Jeff Bezos along with his brother Mark Bezos, 18-year-old Oliver Daemen, and 82-year-old Wally Funk prepare to launch on Tuesday in Van Horn, Texas. Mr. Bezos and the crew are riding in the first human spaceflight for the company.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Amazon founder became the second billionaire this month to reach the edge of space \u2014 following Richard Branson, who rocketed there last week aboard a vessel made by his company Virgin Galactic. <\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/npr-rss-pixel-15.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/07\/20\/1018279093\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-space-flight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Liftoff! Jeff Bezos And Three Crewmates Head To Space<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amazon founder became the second billionaire this month to reach the edge of space \u2014 following Richard Branson, who rocketed there last week aboard a vessel made by his&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-696516","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\/696516","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=696516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696516\/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=696516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}