{"id":85787,"date":"2018-12-13T07:22:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/today-virgin-galactic-will-fly-their-first-mission-for-us-and-join-the-growing-list-of-commercial-vehicles-supporting-our-suborbital-research"},"modified":"2018-12-13T07:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T15:22:55","slug":"today-virgin-galactic-will-fly-their-first-mission-for-us-and-join-the-growing-list-of-commercial-vehicles-supporting-our-suborbital-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/today-virgin-galactic-will-fly-their-first-mission-for-us-and-join-the-growing-list-of-commercial-vehicles-supporting-our-suborbital-research","title":{"rendered":"Today, Virgin Galactic will fly their first mission for us \u2014 and join the growing list of commercial vehicles supporting our suborbital research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/today-virgin-galactic-will-fly-their-first-mission-for-us-and-join-the-growing-list-of-commercial-vehicles-supporting-our-suborbital-research.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Payloads on the flight will collect valuable data to improve technologies for future exploration missions. This flight will be specifically be used to study how dust disperses in microgravity. Understanding dust dynamics can help abate the damage that is caused by particles contaminating hardware and habitats. Swoop in: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2Gr79YT\" target=\"_blank\" data-ft=\"{\u201d tn\u201d:\u201d-U\u201d}\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lynx-mode=\"async\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2Gr79YT\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2Gr79YT<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASA\/photos\/a.67899501771\/10156771897566772\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASA\/photos\/a.67899501771\/10156771897566772<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payloads on the flight will collect valuable data to improve technologies for future exploration missions. This flight will be specifically be used to study how dust disperses in microgravity. Understanding dust dynamics can help abate the damage that is caused by particles contaminating hardware and habitats. Swoop in: https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/2Gr79YT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85787","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=85787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}