{"id":85444,"date":"2018-12-03T15:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T23:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/fai-considers-lowering-boundary-of-space"},"modified":"2018-12-03T15:22:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T23:22:43","slug":"fai-considers-lowering-boundary-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/fai-considers-lowering-boundary-of-space","title":{"rendered":"FAI Considers Lowering Boundary of Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fai-considers-lowering-boundary-of-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, there\u2019s some great news for Virgin Galactic as it prepares for an attempt to send SpaceShipTwo to space. The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration A\u00e9ronautique Internationale (FAI), which maintains records for aviation and spaceflight, is considering lowering the boundary of space from 100 to 80 km (62.1 to 47.7 miles).<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic\u2019s SpaceShipTwo probably can\u2019t reach the 100 km boundary, which is also known as the Karman line.<\/p>\n<p>FAI issued the following statement last week:<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parabolicarc.com\/2018\/12\/03\/fai-considers-lowering-boundary-space\/\">http:\/\/www.parabolicarc.com\/2018\/12\/03\/fai-considers-lowering-boundary-space\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, there\u2019s some great news for Virgin Galactic as it prepares for an attempt to send SpaceShipTwo to space. The F\u00e9d\u00e9ration A\u00e9ronautique Internationale (FAI), which maintains records for aviation and spaceflight, is considering lowering the boundary of space from 100 to 80 km (62.1 to 47.7 miles). Virgin Galactic\u2019s SpaceShipTwo probably can\u2019t reach the 100 [\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-85444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85444","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=85444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}