{"id":124701,"date":"2021-07-08T12:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T19:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/virgin-galactic-richard-branson-flight-reveals-a-heated-space-travel-debate"},"modified":"2021-07-08T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T19:22:19","slug":"virgin-galactic-richard-branson-flight-reveals-a-heated-space-travel-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/virgin-galactic-richard-branson-flight-reveals-a-heated-space-travel-debate","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic: Richard Branson flight reveals a heated space travel debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PSNdG2JYXxY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On July 1, the company announced that it would host its first fully-crewed spaceflight no earlier than Sunday, July 11. The ship will carry two pilots and four mission specialists, most notably company founder Richard Branson.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the company\u2019s 22nd flight with the <a class href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/innovation\/virgin-galactic-reveals-impressive-cabin-interior\">VSS Unity ship<\/a> and the fourth crewed space mission. But it\u2019s that \u201cspace\u201d clarifier that\u2019s sparked debate \u2014 Virgin Galactic\u2019s flights reach an altitude of just over 55 miles, but some organizations claim the boundary of space is actually 62 miles high.<\/p>\n<p>As competitor Blue Origin prepares to launch its own crewed flight later this month, moving past the 62-mile limit, it\u2019s a debate that could dictate who gets bragging rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On July 1, the company announced that it would host its first fully-crewed spaceflight no earlier than Sunday, July 11. The ship will carry two pilots and four mission specialists, most notably company founder Richard Branson. It\u2019s the company\u2019s 22nd flight with the VSS Unity ship and the fourth crewed space mission. But it\u2019s that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":631,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124701","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\/631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}