{"id":108991,"date":"2020-06-22T11:42:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/shares-of-virgin-galactic-surge-after-announcement-that-it-will-train-astronauts-for-nasa"},"modified":"2020-06-22T11:42:56","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T18:42:56","slug":"shares-of-virgin-galactic-surge-after-announcement-that-it-will-train-astronauts-for-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/shares-of-virgin-galactic-surge-after-announcement-that-it-will-train-astronauts-for-nasa","title":{"rendered":"Shares of Virgin Galactic surge after announcement that it will train astronauts for NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shares-of-virgin-galactic-surge-after-announcement-that-it-will-train-astronauts-for-nasa2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=SPCE\">Shares of Virgin Galactic<\/a> shares jumped Monday after it signed an agreement with NASA that will allow the space tourism venture to train astronauts for trips to the International Space Station on flights to the edge of space.<\/p>\n<p>The company \u2014 which is publicly traded but largely owned by founder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/10000365\">Richard Branson<\/a> and chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/06\/15\/delivering-alpha-chamath-palihapitiya.html\">Chamath Palihapitiya<\/a> \u2014 announced on Monday that it signed a \u201cSpace Act Agreement\u201d with NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center, which leads the agency\u2019s astronaut program in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Virgin Galactic rose as much as 14% in early trading from its previous close of $15 a share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shares of Virgin Galactic shares jumped Monday after it signed an agreement with NASA that will allow the space tourism venture to train astronauts for trips to the International Space Station on flights to the edge of space. The company \u2014 which is publicly traded but largely owned by founder Richard Branson and chairman Chamath [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108991","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}