{"id":78587,"date":"2018-05-11T07:22:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/5-space-companies-zeroing-in-on-first-launch-of-tourists-into-orbit-and-beyond"},"modified":"2018-05-15T13:13:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T20:13:08","slug":"5-space-companies-zeroing-in-on-first-launch-of-tourists-into-orbit-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/5-space-companies-zeroing-in-on-first-launch-of-tourists-into-orbit-and-beyond","title":{"rendered":"5 Space Companies Zeroing in on First Launch of Tourists Into Orbit and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/5-space-companies-zeroing-in-on-first-launch-of-tourists-into-orbit-and-beyond.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It won\u2019t be cheap, but your holiday plans could include a trip to the edge of Earth\u2019s atmosphere or beyond\u2014before the end of this year. Several space tourism companies are zeroing in on their first launch.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Smith, CEO of Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2018\/04\/19\/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-could-send-tourists-to-space-in-2018.html\">told CNBC:<\/a> \u201cWe think we still have that possibility of getting that done this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson shared similar sentiments, revealing that the thing he was most excited about in 2018 was \u201chopefully going into space,\u201d presumably in one of his own company\u2019s ships. The news follows a recently restarted series of test flights after a <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2014\/11\/01\/virgin-galactics-spaceshiptwo-lost-over-mojave-desert\/\">tragic test flight crash in 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/05\/10\/5-space-companies-zeroing-in-on-first-launch-of-tourists-into-orbit-and-beyond\/?utm_source=Singularity+Hub+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ab90cb9b1f-Hub_Daily_Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0cf60cdae-ab90cb9b1f-58220945#sm.00005c6cw4vxmeayswr2ap5ju3cmb\">https:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2018\/05\/10\/5-space-companies-zero...2ap5ju3cmb<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It won\u2019t be cheap, but your holiday plans could include a trip to the edge of Earth\u2019s atmosphere or beyond\u2014before the end of this year. Several space tourism companies are zeroing in on their first launch. Bob Smith, CEO of Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin, told CNBC: \u201cWe think we still have that possibility of getting [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78587","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78776,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78587\/revisions\/78776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}