{"id":85797,"date":"2018-12-13T15:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T23:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/bransons-virgin-reaches-edge-of-space"},"modified":"2018-12-13T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T23:02:22","slug":"bransons-virgin-reaches-edge-of-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/bransons-virgin-reaches-edge-of-space","title":{"rendered":"Branson\u2019s Virgin reaches edge of space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bransons-virgin-reaches-edge-of-space.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest test flight by Sir Richard Branson\u2019s Virgin Galactic successfully rocketed to the edge of space and back.<\/p>\n<p>The firm\u2019s SpaceShipTwo passenger rocket ship reached a height of 82.7km, beyond the altitude at which US agencies have awarded astronaut wings.<\/p>\n<p>It marked the plane\u2019s fourth test flight and followed earlier setbacks in the firm\u2019s space programme.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46550862\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46550862<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest test flight by Sir Richard Branson\u2019s Virgin Galactic successfully rocketed to the edge of space and back. The firm\u2019s SpaceShipTwo passenger rocket ship reached a height of 82.7km, beyond the altitude at which US agencies have awarded astronaut wings. It marked the plane\u2019s fourth test flight and followed earlier setbacks in the firm\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85797","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\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}