{"id":173666,"date":"2023-10-07T06:22:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T11:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/virgin-galactic-launches-1st-pakistani-to-space-on-4th-commercial-spaceflight-video"},"modified":"2023-10-07T06:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T11:22:39","slug":"virgin-galactic-launches-1st-pakistani-to-space-on-4th-commercial-spaceflight-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/virgin-galactic-launches-1st-pakistani-to-space-on-4th-commercial-spaceflight-video","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic launches 1st Pakistani to space on 4th commercial spaceflight (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virgin-galactic-launches-1st-pakistani-to-space-on-4th-commercial-spaceflight-video2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s milestone comes less than two months after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18993-virgin-galactic.html\">Virgin Galactic<\/a> launched the first former Olympian and the first mother-daughter duo to the final frontier on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/virgin-galactic-galactic02-launch-success\">Galactic 2 flight<\/a>. The daughter in that duo, 18-year-old Anastatia Mayers, also became the youngest-ever spaceflyer during that mission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/virgin-galactic-04-mission-meet-the-crew\">Meet the crew of Virgin Galactic\u2019s \u2018Galactic 04\u2019 mission<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Galactic 4 began at 11:28 a.m. EDT (1528 GMT) this morning, when Virgin Galactic\u2019s VSS Unity space plane lifted off beneath the wings of its carrier craft, known as VMS Eve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s milestone comes less than two months after Virgin Galactic launched the first former Olympian and the first mother-daughter duo to the final frontier on its Galactic 2 flight. The daughter in that duo, 18-year-old Anastatia Mayers, also became the youngest-ever spaceflyer during that mission. Related: Meet the crew of Virgin Galactic\u2019s \u2018Galactic 04\u2019 mission [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173666","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}