{"id":122244,"date":"2021-05-03T19:23:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-04T02:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/first-look-at-the-insane-virgin-galactic-vss-imagine-spaceship"},"modified":"2021-05-07T12:47:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T19:47:20","slug":"first-look-at-the-insane-virgin-galactic-vss-imagine-spaceship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/first-look-at-the-insane-virgin-galactic-vss-imagine-spaceship","title":{"rendered":"First Look at the Insane Virgin Galactic VSS Imagine Spaceship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-look-at-the-insane-virgin-galactic-vss-imagine-spaceship2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Virgin Galactic spaceship, VSS Imagine has been unveiled, revealing a more modular spacecraft designed to resolve challenges.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cFor us to make the business start to scale, at the places that we\u2019re aspiring towards, we need two things,\u201d says Virgin Galactic CEO Michael Colglazier. \u201cWe need many more ships than we have right now and we also need the ships that we bring forward to be built in a way that they\u2019re able to be maintained in a way that we can have much quicker than what we have with Unity.\u201d In order to achieve those two elements of success, Virgin Atlantic has unveiled their latest spacecraft, the VSS Imagine. The new addition to the fleet is the third spacecraft built by Virgin Galactic and \u201chas been designed in a way that\u2019s taken the learnings we\u2019ve had from all the flight testing on Unity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virgin Galactic spaceship, VSS Imagine has been unveiled, revealing a more modular spacecraft designed to resolve challenges. \u201cFor us to make the business start to scale, at the places that we\u2019re aspiring towards, we need two things,\u201d says Virgin Galactic CEO Michael Colglazier. \u201cWe need many more ships than we have right now and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122244","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=122244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122353,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122244\/revisions\/122353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}