{"id":88145,"date":"2019-02-25T01:22:23","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T09:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/richard-bransons-virgin-galactic-reaches-space-again-this-time-with-first-test-passenger"},"modified":"2019-02-25T01:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T09:22:23","slug":"richard-bransons-virgin-galactic-reaches-space-again-this-time-with-first-test-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/richard-bransons-virgin-galactic-reaches-space-again-this-time-with-first-test-passenger","title":{"rendered":"Richard Branson\u2019s Virgin Galactic reaches space again, this time with first test passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/richard-bransons-virgin-galactic-reaches-space-again-this-time-with-first-test-passenger3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic sent three human beings on Unity for the first time in Friday\u2019s supersonic test flight, which reached three times the speed of sound on its way up. Just before the flight, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/richard-branson\/\">Richard Branson\u2019s<\/a> space tourism company told CNBC that astronaut trainer Beth Moses is on the company\u2019s spacecraft Unity, along with the two pilots.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeth Moses is on board as a crew member,\u201d a Virgin Galactic spokeswoman told CNBC. \u201cShe will be doing validation of some of the cabin design elements.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/virgingalactic\/status\/1098983248141545472\" target=\"_self\">@VirginGalactic take off tweet<\/a> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/02\/22\/richard-bransons-virgin-galactic-sends-first-test-passenger-on-spaceflight.html\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/02\/22\/richard-bransons-virgin-gala...light.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic sent three human beings on Unity for the first time in Friday\u2019s supersonic test flight, which reached three times the speed of sound on its way up. Just before the flight, Richard Branson\u2019s space tourism company told CNBC that astronaut trainer Beth Moses is on the company\u2019s spacecraft Unity, along with the two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88145","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}