{"id":124816,"date":"2021-07-11T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/branson-beats-bezos-to-space-history-and-flight-analysis-with-tim-pickens"},"modified":"2021-07-11T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T02:23:00","slug":"branson-beats-bezos-to-space-history-and-flight-analysis-with-tim-pickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/branson-beats-bezos-to-space-history-and-flight-analysis-with-tim-pickens","title":{"rendered":"Branson Beats Bezos to Space History and Flight Analysis with Tim Pickens"},"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\/msdEcDo5HBE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Breaking \u2014 Branson Beats Bezos to Space! Some history of the Virgin Galactic propulsion development, flight analysis and more background with Tim Pickens.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Pickens is an entrepreneur, inventor, innovator, engineer and educator. He specializes in commercial space, technical product development and solutions, and business consulting and strategy for space and technical companies. Pickens\u2019 25+ years of experience in the aerospace industry, specializing in the design, fabrication and testing of propulsion hardware systems, has earned him a reputation as one of the industry\u2019s leaders in these areas. Early in his career, Pickens served as propulsion lead for Scaled Composites on SpaceShipOne, winner of the $10 million Ansari X Prize. He also worked for small hardware-rich aerospace companies in Huntsville, and later supported the Virgin Galactic\u2019s SpaceShipTwo venture.<\/p>\n<p>You can support Galactic Gregs by supporting the sister channel Green Gregs by clicking the links below:<br \/> For your space habitat garden buy worms at <a href=\"http:\/\/greengregs.com\">greengregs.com<\/a>!<br \/> See the Special Deals at My Patriot Supply (great space mission food): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.PrepWithGreg.com\">www.PrepWithGreg.com<\/a>.<br \/> For gardening in your space habitat (or on Earth) Galactic Gregs has teamed up with True Leaf Market to bring you a great selection of seed for your planting. Check it out: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pntrac.com\/t\/TUJGRklGSkJGTU1IS0hCRkpIRk1K\">http:\/\/www.pntrac.com\/t\/TUJGRklGSkJGTU1IS0hCRkpIRk1K<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breaking \u2014 Branson Beats Bezos to Space! Some history of the Virgin Galactic propulsion development, flight analysis and more background with Tim Pickens. Tim Pickens is an entrepreneur, inventor, innovator, engineer and educator. He specializes in commercial space, technical product development and solutions, and business consulting and strategy for space and technical companies. Pickens\u2019 25+ [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1506,15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-food","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124816","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\/606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}