{"id":87039,"date":"2019-01-25T13:22:38","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/first-commercial-spaceshiptwo-flight-is-expected-to-launch-this-year"},"modified":"2019-01-25T13:22:38","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:22:38","slug":"first-commercial-spaceshiptwo-flight-is-expected-to-launch-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/first-commercial-spaceshiptwo-flight-is-expected-to-launch-this-year","title":{"rendered":"First Commercial SpaceShipTwo Flight Is Expected to Launch This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-commercial-spaceshiptwo-flight-is-expected-to-launch-this-year.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson aims to fly to space on the first-ever commercial SpaceShipTwo flight in mid-2019.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Branson spoke about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceShipTwo<\/a> on the <em>CBS This Morning<\/em> TV show, and how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/under-armour-will-design-space-suits-and-footwear-for-virgin-galactic-astronauts-1771376\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virgin Galactic is collaborating with Under Armour<\/a> to equip future astronauts with proper space attire and footwear, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/branson-expects-commercial-spaceshiptwo-flights-to-begin-in-mid-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"http:\/\/SpaceNews.com\">SpaceNews.com<\/a> reported<\/a>. During the interview, Branson said Virgin Galactic is conducting additional tests for the first commercial SpaceShipTwo flight, which is expected to take place later this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p> How soon do you see people in space wearing an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UnderArmour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UnderArmour<\/a> outfit?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/first-commercial-spaceshiptwo-flight-is-expected-to-launch-this-year-1771521\/\">https:\/\/www.geek.com\/news\/first-commercial-spaceshiptwo-flig...r-1771521\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson aims to fly to space on the first-ever commercial SpaceShipTwo flight in mid-2019. On Thursday, Branson spoke about SpaceShipTwo on the CBS This Morning TV show, and how Virgin Galactic is collaborating with Under Armour to equip future astronauts with proper space attire and footwear, SpaceNews.com reported. During the interview, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87039","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=87039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}