{"id":85806,"date":"2018-12-13T19:02:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T03:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/historic-virgin-galactic-flight-reminds-us-that-space-is-just-a-concept-man"},"modified":"2018-12-13T19:02:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T03:02:59","slug":"historic-virgin-galactic-flight-reminds-us-that-space-is-just-a-concept-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/historic-virgin-galactic-flight-reminds-us-that-space-is-just-a-concept-man","title":{"rendered":"Historic Virgin Galactic Flight Reminds Us That \u2018Space\u2019 Is Just a Concept, Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/historic-virgin-galactic-flight-reminds-us-that-space-is-just-a-concept-man2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, Virgin Galactic sent its SpaceShipTwo commercial aircraft into space, a historic first for the private company. But at a maximum altitude of 51.4 miles (82.68 kilometers), the spaceplane fell 10.6 miles (17.32 kilometers) short of the Karman line\u2014the internationally recognized boundary separating the atmosphere from space. Prompting the inevitable question: What the hell is space, anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Before we nitpick Virgin Galactic\u2019s achievement, let\u2019s give credit where it\u2019s due.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/historic-virgin-galactic-flight-reminds-us-that-space-1831084081\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/historic-virgin-galactic-flight-reminds-...1831084081<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, Virgin Galactic sent its SpaceShipTwo commercial aircraft into space, a historic first for the private company. But at a maximum altitude of 51.4 miles (82.68 kilometers), the spaceplane fell 10.6 miles (17.32 kilometers) short of the Karman line\u2014the internationally recognized boundary separating the atmosphere from space. Prompting the inevitable question: What the hell [\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-85806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85806","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=85806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}