{"id":135702,"date":"2022-02-16T09:22:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/virgin-galactic-stock-jumps-32-as-spaceflight-ticket-sales-open-with-150000-deposit"},"modified":"2022-02-16T09:22:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:22:38","slug":"virgin-galactic-stock-jumps-32-as-spaceflight-ticket-sales-open-with-150000-deposit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/virgin-galactic-stock-jumps-32-as-spaceflight-ticket-sales-open-with-150000-deposit","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic stock jumps 32% as spaceflight ticket sales open with $150,000 deposit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virgin-galactic-stock-jumps-32-as-spaceflight-ticket-sales-open-with-150000-deposit3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space tourism company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/SPCE\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Galactic<\/a> announced Tuesday that it will open ticket sales to the public for the first time on Wednesday, requiring a $150,000 deposit.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic ticket prices start at $450,000 each, as the company revealed last year, with three different sales offerings: a single seat purchase, packaged seats for couples, friends or family, or opportunities to book entire flights. The company has said previously that \u2014 of the $150,000 deposit \u2014 $25,000 is not refundable.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of Virgin Galactic jumped 32% in trading to close at $10.74. The stock has been battered over the past 12 months, dropping 80%, with the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/10\/14\/virgin-galactic-delays-beginning-of-commercial-spaceflights-to-fourth-quarter-2022.html\">having delayed the beginning of commercial spaceflights<\/a> to late this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space tourism company Virgin Galactic announced Tuesday that it will open ticket sales to the public for the first time on Wednesday, requiring a $150,000 deposit. Virgin Galactic ticket prices start at $450,000 each, as the company revealed last year, with three different sales offerings: a single seat purchase, packaged seats for couples, friends or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135702","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=135702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}