{"id":175224,"date":"2023-10-31T11:23:40","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/meet-the-crew-of-virgin-galactics-5th-commercial-spaceflight-launching-on-nov-2"},"modified":"2023-10-31T11:23:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T16:23:40","slug":"meet-the-crew-of-virgin-galactics-5th-commercial-spaceflight-launching-on-nov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/meet-the-crew-of-virgin-galactics-5th-commercial-spaceflight-launching-on-nov-2","title":{"rendered":"Meet the crew of Virgin Galactic\u2019s 5th commercial spaceflight launching on Nov. 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/meet-the-crew-of-virgin-galactics-5th-commercial-spaceflight-launching-on-nov-22.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On pace with its once-a-month flight goal, Virgin Galactic is about to embark on its fifth commercial mission, and its final flight of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Galactic 5 is scheduled to lift off this Thursday (Nov. 2) and will carry three passengers on a brief trip to suborbital space. The trio will fly aboard Virgin Galactic\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/19021-spaceshiptwo.html\">SpaceShipTwo<\/a> space plane, named VSS Unity, and experience several minutes of weightlessness while they perform a quick round of research experiments and gaze at the wonders of Earth from a vantage point few have reached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On pace with its once-a-month flight goal, Virgin Galactic is about to embark on its fifth commercial mission, and its final flight of 2023. Galactic 5 is scheduled to lift off this Thursday (Nov. 2) and will carry three passengers on a brief trip to suborbital space. The trio will fly aboard Virgin Galactic\u2019s SpaceShipTwo [\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-175224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175224","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=175224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}