{"id":10343,"date":"2014-03-14T11:57:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T18:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10343"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:09:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:09:01","slug":"richard-branson-considering-virgin-space-hotels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/richard-branson-considering-virgin-space-hotels","title":{"rendered":"Richard Branson considering Virgin space hotels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>By <a>Hotelier Middle East Staff<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<br \/> Virgin Galactic \u2014 backed by the Abu Dhabi government\u2019s Aabar Investments \u2014 is expected to launch its first space flight within three months, marking the first commercial trip into outer space in history.<\/p>\n<p>Branson, who also spoke about his plans to launch commercial space flights between London and Australia during a recent trip to Dubai, said if the flights are commercially successful there were numerous plans for space-related enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we can get enough people wanting to fly [to space] we can start building Virgin hotels in space, we can start doing trips to Mars, we can colonise Mars, we can start pulling asteroids back to Earth to see what minerals they have got in them,\u201d he said during an interview on The Jonathan Ross show in the UK on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoteliermiddleeast.com\/19749-richard-branson-considering-virgin-space-hotels\/#.UyNPjYUyDlw\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Hotelier Middle East Staff Virgin Galactic \u2014 backed by the Abu Dhabi government\u2019s Aabar Investments \u2014 is expected to launch its first space flight within three months, marking the first commercial trip into outer space in history. Branson, who also spoke about his plans to launch commercial space flights between London and Australia during [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65021,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10343\/revisions\/65021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}