{"id":94882,"date":"2019-08-17T08:42:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T15:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/spacex-eats-virgin-galactics-dust-richard-branson-reveals-new-spaceport"},"modified":"2019-08-17T08:42:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T15:42:59","slug":"spacex-eats-virgin-galactics-dust-richard-branson-reveals-new-spaceport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/spacex-eats-virgin-galactics-dust-richard-branson-reveals-new-spaceport","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Eats Virgin Galactic\u2019s Dust: Richard Branson Reveals New Spaceport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-eats-virgin-galactics-dust-richard-branson-reveals-new-spaceport.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spaceport America, the world\u2019s first purpose-built commercial spaceport standing on the sands of the New Mexico desert, is readying itself to welcome the world\u2019s first space tourists.<\/p>\n<p>And Virgin Galactic will likely be the first to fly these people into outer space. The cost of a seat on a Virgin Galactic spaceflight is $250,000 and 600 people have already paid downpayments for their trips.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic on Thursday declared Spaceport America \u201coperationally functional\u201d and transferred all its spaceflight operations to this facility. It also revealed the interior of its \u201cGateway to Space\u201d building at the spaceport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaceport America, the world\u2019s first purpose-built commercial spaceport standing on the sands of the New Mexico desert, is readying itself to welcome the world\u2019s first space tourists. And Virgin Galactic will likely be the first to fly these people into outer space. The cost of a seat on a Virgin Galactic spaceflight is $250,000 and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94882","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=94882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}