{"id":121115,"date":"2021-04-01T00:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T07:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/virgin-galactic-rolls-out-latest-generation-of-spaceship"},"modified":"2021-04-01T00:22:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T07:22:38","slug":"virgin-galactic-rolls-out-latest-generation-of-spaceship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/virgin-galactic-rolls-out-latest-generation-of-spaceship","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic rolls out latest generation of spaceship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virgin-galactic-rolls-out-latest-generation-of-spaceship2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Company officials say it will likely be summer before the ship begins glide flight testing at Spaceport America in southern New Mexico.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Virgin Galactic has reached space twice before \u2014 the first time from California in December 2018. The company marked its second successful glide flight over Spaceport America last June.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">RELATED: <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyc.com\/article\/news\/nation-world\/private-space-crew-paying-55m-to-fly-to-iss\/507-543bae6f-f197-40ce-be4a-11a2c23c64cd\">1st private space crew paying $55M each to fly to International Space Station<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"\">RELATED: <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wkyc.com\/article\/news\/year-in-review\/worlds-space-achievements-a-bright-spot-in-stressful-2020\/507-d6a57723-6ab6-4681-b38f-bd6a4f75d7df\">World\u2019s space achievements a bright spot in stressful 2020<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic is one of a few companies looking to cash in on customers with an interest in space. Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin launched a new capsule in January as part of test as it aims to get its program for tourists, scientists and professional astronauts off the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company officials say it will likely be summer before the ship begins glide flight testing at Spaceport America in southern New Mexico. Virgin Galactic has reached space twice before \u2014 the first time from California in December 2018. The company marked its second successful glide flight over Spaceport America last June. RELATED: 1st private space [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121115","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=121115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}