{"id":133434,"date":"2022-01-01T06:22:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T14:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/virgin-galactic-gets-greenlight-to-fly-space-tourists"},"modified":"2022-01-01T06:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T14:22:46","slug":"virgin-galactic-gets-greenlight-to-fly-space-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/virgin-galactic-gets-greenlight-to-fly-space-tourists","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic gets greenlight to fly space tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virgin-galactic-gets-greenlight-to-fly-space-tourists2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>British billionaire Richard Branson\u2019s Virgin Galactic has become the first spaceline to get the go-ahead from the FAA to take up space tourists \u2014 a huge milestone in recreational spaceflight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Space tourists:<\/strong> For decades, only governments could afford to launch people into space, but thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/articles\/reusable-rockets\">reusable rockets<\/a> and other advances, spaceflight is now cheaper than ever.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s led to a burgeoning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/articles\/space-tourism\">space tourism<\/a> industry, with dozens of companies looking to take people on recreational trips into space \u2014 or at least the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/articles\/stratospheric-balloon-space-tourism\">edge of it<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British billionaire Richard Branson\u2019s Virgin Galactic has become the first spaceline to get the go-ahead from the FAA to take up space tourists \u2014 a huge milestone in recreational spaceflight. Space tourists: For decades, only governments could afford to launch people into space, but thanks to reusable rockets and other advances, spaceflight is now cheaper [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133434","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}