{"id":176558,"date":"2023-11-23T08:27:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T14:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/virgin-galactic-sets-dates-for-first-commercial-space-flights"},"modified":"2023-11-23T08:27:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T14:27:42","slug":"virgin-galactic-sets-dates-for-first-commercial-space-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/virgin-galactic-sets-dates-for-first-commercial-space-flights","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic sets dates for first commercial space flights"},"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\/hRuYGayEFCM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After multiple delays, billionaire Richard Branson\u2019s Virgin Galactic is finally ready to begin commercial space flights \u2014 and you can snag a ticket for $450,000.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The background:<\/strong> In June 2021, Virgin Galactic became the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/space\/space-tourists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">first spaceline<\/a> to secure permission from the FAA for commercial space flights, suggesting that it was pulling ahead of rivals Blue Origin and SpaceX in the space tourism arena.<\/p>\n<p>While both of those companies planned to use rockets to send crewed capsules into space, Virgin Galactic\u2019s idea was to put people in a spaceplane \u2014 a vehicle that can fly through Earth\u2019s atmosphere like a plane, but also navigate space like a spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After multiple delays, billionaire Richard Branson\u2019s Virgin Galactic is finally ready to begin commercial space flights \u2014 and you can snag a ticket for $450,000. The background: In June 2021, Virgin Galactic became the first spaceline to secure permission from the FAA for commercial space flights, suggesting that it was pulling ahead of rivals Blue [\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-176558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176558","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=176558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}