{"id":2111,"date":"2021-07-10T06:37:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T04:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/10\/richard-bransons-quest-to-boldly-go-where-no-billionaire-has-gone-before\/"},"modified":"2021-07-10T06:37:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T04:37:29","slug":"richard-bransons-quest-to-boldly-go-where-no-billionaire-has-gone-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/10\/richard-bransons-quest-to-boldly-go-where-no-billionaire-has-gone-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Branson\u2019s quest: to boldly go where no billionaire has gone before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Successful flight on Virgin Galactic craft would mark the next phase of space tourism race with Jeff Bezos<\/p>\n<p>It does not often rain in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Nevertheless, Sir Richard Branson is likely to feel nervous as he checks the weather forecast on Sunday morning: if there are blue skies ahead then the British entrepreneur is likely to become the richest person ever to venture into space.<\/p>\n<p>Branson and his team \u2013 two pilots and three other \u201cmission specialists\u201d \u2013 will strap into the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2020\/jul\/29\/virgin-galactic-offers-peek-inside-new-space-plane-for-tourists\">spacecraft, the VSS Unity<\/a>. If all goes well Branson and co will be propelled 50 miles above the Earth\u2019s surface, the point considered by Nasa, the US space agency, to mark the end of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2021\/jul\/10\/richard-branson-virgin-galactic-flight-billionaire-space-tourism-race-jeff-bezos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a984d6b0ed60e052a91bd5db727499c1a1110076\/495_462_3482_2088\/master\/3482.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=7e1be0e540c03f9c83302f86b28f5cf9\" title=\"Richard Branson\u2019s quest: to boldly go where no billionaire has gone before\" \/>Successful flight on Virgin Galactic craft would mark the next phase of space tourism race with Jeff Bezos<br \/>\nIt does not often rain in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Nevertheless, Sir Richard Branson is likely to feel nervous as he checks the weather forecast on Sunday morning: if there are blue skies ahead then the British entrepreneur is likely to become the richest person ever to venture into space.<br \/>\nBranson and his team \u2013 two pilots and three other \u201cmission specialists\u201d \u2013 will strap into the spacecraft, the VSS Unity. If all goes well Branson and co will be propelled 50 miles above the Earth\u2019s surface, the point considered by Nasa, the US space agency, to mark the end of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successful flight on Virgin Galactic craft would mark the next phase of space tourism race with Jeff Bezos It does not often rain in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Nevertheless, Sir Richard Branson is likely to feel nervous as he checks the weather forecast on Sunday morning: if there are blue skies ahead then the British &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/10\/richard-bransons-quest-to-boldly-go-where-no-billionaire-has-gone-before\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Richard Branson\u2019s quest: to boldly go where no billionaire has gone before<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}