{"id":574856,"date":"2021-06-27T12:05:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T16:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574856"},"modified":"2021-06-27T12:05:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T16:05:44","slug":"faa-clears-virgin-galactic-to-fly-passengers-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/faa-clears-virgin-galactic-to-fly-passengers-to-space\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA Clears Virgin Galactic To Fly Passengers To Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffaa-clears-virgin-galactic-to-fly-passengers-to-space%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574856&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/virgin-2.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Virgin Galactic has announced that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration cleared the company to take passengers into space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday\u2019s approval by the FAA of our full commercial launch license, in conjunction with the success of our May 22 test flight, give us confidence as we proceed toward our first fully crewed test flight this summer,\u201d Michael Colglazier, CEO of Virgin Galactic, said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic founder Sir Richard Branson is in a race with Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, and fellow billionaire Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, to be the first to take tourists into space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirgin Galactic hasn\u2019t announced when its next spaceflight will be, but there\u2019s speculation the company will try to launch Branson to space before Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos makes his trip to the edge of space on July 20,\u201d The New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/06\/25\/faa-clears-virgin-galactic-to-fly-passengers-to-space\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Space blog Parabolic Arc <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parabolicarc.com\/2021\/06\/07\/virgin-galactics-richard-branson-aims-to-fly-to-space-before-jeff-bezos\/\">reported<\/a> earlier this month that \u201cBranson\u2019s flight would take place about two weeks before Bezos, his brother Mark and the winner of an online auction are scheduled to board Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard vehicle for a suborbital flight on July 20. It will be the first crewed flight of New Shepard, which has flown 15 times with no one aboard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, a person with very deep pockets won an auction to join Bezos and others on a trip to space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Amazon founder\u2019s rocket company, Blue Origin, did not disclose the winner\u2019s name following the live online auction,\u201d WDSU-TV <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wdsu.com\/article\/winning-auction-bid-fly-in-space-with-jeff-bezos-28m\/36706128\">reported<\/a>. \u201cThe identity will be revealed in a couple weeks \u2014 closer to the brief up-and-down flight from West Texas on July 20, the 52nd anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin\u2019s moon landing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blue Origin\u2019s New Shepard rocket has done 15 test flights since 2015, all successful. \u201cThe completely automated capsule can carry up to six passengers, each with their own big window. Blue Origin\u2019s top sales director, Ariane Cornell, said following the auction that the fourth and final seat on the debut crew flight will be announced soon,\u201d the station reported.<\/p>\n<p>More than 7,500 people from nearly 160 countries registered to bid on the flight, according to Blue Origin. But just 20 bidders were included in Saturday\u2019s final auction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe winning bid amount will be donated to Blue Origin\u2019s foundation, Club for the Future, whose mission is to inspire future generations to pursue careers in STEM and to help invent the future of life in space,\u201d said the Blue Origin website.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a Japanese billionaire who has already booked a seat on the first private flight to the moon said in March he\u2019s willing to bring eight companions along \u2014 and he\u2019ll pay their way.<\/p>\n<p>Yusaku Maezawa put out an open call for people who want to join him on the SpaceX rocket, which is set to head to the moon in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you satisfied with what you\u2019re doing right now? By going to space could you do something that\u2019s even better, even bigger? If that sounds like you, please join me,\u201d Maezawa said in a video detailing his plans.\u00a0\u201cI will pay for the entire journey. I have bought all the seats so it will be a private ride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic has announced that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration cleared the company to take passengers into space.\u201cToday\u2019s approval by the FAA of our full commercial launch license, in conjunction &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2281451,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/virgin-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"FAA Clears Virgin Galactic To Fly Passengers To Space","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/virgin-2.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"FAA Clears Virgin Galactic To Fly Passengers To Space","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2281451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}