{"id":696965,"date":"2021-07-23T09:53:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T13:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=696965"},"modified":"2021-07-23T09:53:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T13:53:53","slug":"keen-to-sign-up-for-space-tourism-here-are-6-things-to-consider-besides-the-price-tag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=696965","title":{"rendered":"Keen to sign up for space tourism? Here are 6 things to consider (besides the price tag)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a momentous month for space-faring billionaires. On July 11, British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson&#8217;s Unity &#8220;rocket-plane&#8221; flew him and five fellow passengers about 85 kilometers above Earth. And this week, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos&#8217; New Shepard capsule reached an altitude of 106km, carrying Bezos, his brother, and the oldest and youngest people ever to reach such a height. Passengers on both flights experienced several minutes of weightlessness and took in breathtaking views of our beautiful and fragile Earth.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-07-keen-space-tourism-price-tag.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Keen to sign up for space tourism? Here are 6 things to consider (besides the price tag)<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a momentous month for space-faring billionaires. On July 11, British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson&#8217;s Unity &#8220;rocket-plane&#8221; flew him and five fellow passengers about 85 kilometers above Earth. And&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696965","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=696965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696965\/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=696965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}