{"id":115519,"date":"2020-11-06T20:22:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T04:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/virgin-galactics-richard-branson-wants-to-be-the-first-space-billionaire-to-actually-travel-to-space"},"modified":"2020-11-06T20:22:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T04:22:36","slug":"virgin-galactics-richard-branson-wants-to-be-the-first-space-billionaire-to-actually-travel-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/virgin-galactics-richard-branson-wants-to-be-the-first-space-billionaire-to-actually-travel-to-space","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic\u2019s Richard Branson wants to be the first \u2018space billionaire\u2019 to actually travel to space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virgin-galactics-richard-branson-wants-to-be-the-first-space-billionaire-to-actually-travel-to-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richard Branson, the thrill-seeking British billionaire, founded Virgin Galactic in 2004 on the promise that a privately developed spacecraft would make it possible for hundreds of people to become astronauts, no NASA training required. And if a 2,500-mile-per-hour ride to the edge of space sounded off-putting, Branson also pledged to take the journey himself before letting paying customers on board.<\/p>\n<p>Branson is the only one among the group of the so-called space barons, the group of space-loving billionaires that includes Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, who has publicly pledged to take a ride in the near future aboard a spacecraft he has bankrolled.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos\u2019 company, Blue Origin, is working on a competing suborbital space tourism rocket. Musk\u2019s SpaceX, however, is focused on transporting astronauts and perhaps one day tourists on days-long missions to Earth\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Branson, the thrill-seeking British billionaire, founded Virgin Galactic in 2004 on the promise that a privately developed spacecraft would make it possible for hundreds of people to become astronauts, no NASA training required. And if a 2,500-mile-per-hour ride to the edge of space sounded off-putting, Branson also pledged to take the journey himself before [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115519","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}