{"id":83482,"date":"2018-10-09T03:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T10:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/richard-branson-says-virgin-galactic-will-be-in-space-within-weeks-not-months"},"modified":"2018-10-09T03:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T10:02:22","slug":"richard-branson-says-virgin-galactic-will-be-in-space-within-weeks-not-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/richard-branson-says-virgin-galactic-will-be-in-space-within-weeks-not-months","title":{"rendered":"Richard Branson says Virgin Galactic will be in space \u2018within weeks, not months\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/richard-branson-says-virgin-galactic-will-be-in-space-within-weeks-not-months.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018We will be in space with people not too long after that\u2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>\u201cWe should be in space within weeks, not months. And then we will be in space with myself in months and not years,\u201d<\/em> the Virgin founder and CEO told CNBC on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe will be in space with people not too long after that so we have got a very, very exciting couple of months ahead.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes amid a closely fought race between Branson\u2019s Virgin Galactic and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin to get the first fare-paying passengers into space.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/business\/440729-branson-going-space-soon\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/business\/440729-branson-going-space-soon\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We will be in space with people not too long after that\u2019 \u201cWe should be in space within weeks, not months. And then we will be in space with myself in months and not years,\u201d the Virgin founder and CEO told CNBC on Tuesday. \u201cWe will be in space with people not too long after [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83482","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}