{"id":166668,"date":"2023-06-30T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T06:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/virgin-galactic-just-launched-its-first-commercial-space-tourism-flight"},"modified":"2023-06-30T01:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T06:23:08","slug":"virgin-galactic-just-launched-its-first-commercial-space-tourism-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/virgin-galactic-just-launched-its-first-commercial-space-tourism-flight","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic just launched its first commercial space tourism 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\/0-bnaq9BKio?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sir Richard Branson\u2019s space tourism enterprise is carrying a commercial crew of three to the edge of space for the very first time.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic just performed its sixth spaceflight and first-ever commercial space tourism expedition.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s VSS Unity spaceplane took off attached to its carrier aircraft VMS Eve, from Spaceport America, New Mexico at 11:00 ET (0900 GMT) today, June 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Richard Branson\u2019s space tourism enterprise is carrying a commercial crew of three to the edge of space for the very first time. Virgin Galactic just performed its sixth spaceflight and first-ever commercial space tourism expedition. The company\u2019s VSS Unity spaceplane took off attached to its carrier aircraft VMS Eve, from Spaceport America, New Mexico [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166668","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}