{"id":167494,"date":"2023-07-14T08:24:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/virgin-galactics-first-private-passenger-spaceflight-will-launch-as-soon-as-august-10th"},"modified":"2023-07-14T08:24:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T13:24:12","slug":"virgin-galactics-first-private-passenger-spaceflight-will-launch-as-soon-as-august-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/virgin-galactics-first-private-passenger-spaceflight-will-launch-as-soon-as-august-10th","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic\u2019s first private passenger spaceflight will launch as soon as August 10th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now that Virgin Galactic has flown its first commercial spaceflight<\/a>, it\u2019s ready to take civilians aboard. The company now expects<\/a> to launch its first private passenger flight, Galactic 2, as soon as August 10th. Virgin isn\u2019t yet revealing the names of everyone involved, but there will be three passengers alongside the usual crew. You can watch a live stream on the company website.<\/p>\n

The inaugural commercial flight, Galactic 1, flew in late June. However, all three passengers were Italian government workers (two from the Air Force and one research council member) conducting microgravity studies. While it\u2019s not clear what 02\u2019s civilian crew will do, they can be tourists this time around.<\/p>\n

The firm has been ramping up its operations in recent months after numerous delays<\/a> from previous years. While Galactic 2 is just Virgin\u2019s seventh spaceflight of any kind, it\u2019s the third in 2023. The company says it\u2019s establishing a \u201cregular cadence\u201d of flights, and you can expect them to become relatively routine if this voyage goes as planned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that Virgin Galactic has flown its first commercial spaceflight, it\u2019s ready to take civilians aboard. The company now expects to launch its first private passenger flight, Galactic 2, as soon as August 10th. Virgin isn\u2019t yet revealing the names of everyone involved, but there will be three passengers alongside the usual crew. You can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167494","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\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}