{"id":124860,"date":"2021-07-12T16:24:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T23:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/richard-branson-reaches-the-edge-of-space-on-virgin-galactic-flight"},"modified":"2021-07-12T16:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T23:24:04","slug":"richard-branson-reaches-the-edge-of-space-on-virgin-galactic-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/richard-branson-reaches-the-edge-of-space-on-virgin-galactic-flight","title":{"rendered":"Richard Branson reaches the edge of space on Virgin Galactic flight"},"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\/X0XwIl5X96c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Richard Branson has finally launched to the edge of space aboard his Virgin Galactic space plane, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2182116-are-virgin-galactic-and-richard-branson-really-going-to-space-soon\/\">flight more than 15 years in the making<\/a>. The billionaire has narrowly become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2283703-virgin-galactic-may-finally-send-richard-branson-to-space-on-11-july\/\">first person to fly on a spacecraft of their own making<\/a>, beating Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos by a matter of days.<\/p>\n<p>On 11 July, the VSS Unity launched from New Mexico, taking Branson, two pilots and three other passengers on a 90-minute suborbital flight to an altitude of 85 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo all you kids down there, I was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars,\u201d Branson said in a broadcast during the flight. \u201cNow I\u2019m an adult, in a spaceship with lots of other wonderful adults, looking down to our beautiful, beautiful Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude00 Richard Branson has finally launched to the edge of space aboard his Virgin Galactic space plane, a flight more than 15 years in the making. The billionaire has narrowly become the first person to fly on a spacecraft of their own making, beating Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos by a matter of days. On [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124860","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}