{"id":588432,"date":"2021-07-11T17:50:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T21:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=588432"},"modified":"2021-07-11T17:51:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T21:51:05","slug":"virgin-galactic-completes-space-flight-with-founder-richard-branson-onboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virgin-galactic-completes-space-flight-with-founder-richard-branson-onboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic completes space flight with founder Richard Branson onboard"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fvirgin-galactic-completes-space-flight-with-founder-richard-branson-onboard%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=588432&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 id=\"attachment_2452845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2452845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo space plane Unity and mothership separate as they fly way above Spaceport America, near Truth and Consequences, New Mexico on July 11, 2021 on the way to the cosmos. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 2:37 PM PT \u2013 Sunday, July 11, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Virgin Galactic blasted into space with founder Richard Branson onboard for a 90 minute suborbital flight. VSS Unity lifted off from the company\u2019s launch site near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Virgin Galactic founder joined five company employees for Sunday\u2019s test flight to demonstrate the safety and plausibility of an emerging commercial space marketplace. The VMS Eve, the carrier mothership, soared to an altitude of more than 50 miles before releasing the space plane.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve done some really ridiculous things in my lifetime, but this is truly, truly ridiculous,\u201d Branson explained. \u201cI wish that the whole world can experience this. It\u2019s the complete experience of a lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I was once a child with a dream looking up to the stars. Now I&#8217;m an adult in a spaceship looking down to our beautiful Earth. To the next generation of dreamers: if we can do this, just imagine what you can do <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wyzj0nOBgX\">https:\/\/t.co\/Wyzj0nOBgX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Unity22?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Unity22<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/virgingalactic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@virgingalactic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/03EJmKiH8V\">pic.twitter.com\/03EJmKiH8V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Richard Branson (@richardbranson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richardbranson\/status\/1414289206717865984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The flight crew had about three minutes of weightlessness before reentering the atmosphere for a spiral descent. Branson wasn\u2019t supposed to be onboard until later this summer, but the billionaire adventurer jumped on an earlier flight soon after Blue Origin\u2019s Jeff Bezos announced his own spaceflight set for July 20.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic has plans for two more test flights this year before boarding paying customers. So far, 700 people have purchased tickets with the company\u2019s upcoming space tourism busses at $250,000 each.<\/p>\n<p>At the conclusion of today\u2019s mission, Branson gave a ceremonial speech in which he welcomed the worldwide audience to a new dawn in space travel.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/fmr-acting-ice-chief-removing-public-health-rule-at-border-would-be-catastrophic\/\">Fmr. Acting ICE Chief: Removing Public Health Rule At Border Would Be \u2018Catastrophic\u2019<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo space plane Unity and mothership separate as they fly way above Spaceport America, near Truth and Consequences, New Mexico on July 11, 2021 on the way &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588432","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}