{"id":8617,"date":"2023-01-14T15:39:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T14:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/14\/wings-like-cracked-eggshells-richard-branson-faces-turbulence-over-safety-of-space-flights\/"},"modified":"2023-01-14T15:39:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T14:39:13","slug":"wings-like-cracked-eggshells-richard-branson-faces-turbulence-over-safety-of-space-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/14\/wings-like-cracked-eggshells-richard-branson-faces-turbulence-over-safety-of-space-flights\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Wings like cracked eggshells\u2019: Richard Branson faces turbulence over safety of space flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investors are pursuing legal action against Virgin Galactic, claiming the company\u2019s two spacecraft were not designed for regular space travel<\/p>\n<p>In a desert basin in New Mexico, Richard Branson hopes history will be made later this year with the launch of Virgin Galactic\u2019s first commercial flights to the edge of space, with tickets costing about $450,000 (\u00a3370,000) each.<\/p>\n<p>It is an ambitious schedule to launch the \u201cworld\u2019s first commercial spaceliner\u201d at Spaceport America, even though it is already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2021\/may\/02\/will-virgin-galactic-ever-lift-off-richard-bransons-space-mission-is-still-stuck-on-earth\">more than a decade late<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/jan\/14\/richard-branson-virgin-galactic-passengers-space\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f31988ffba471295c390d7cbf212d867f99756b8\/0_134_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c2f89c80a08a632b09fd8f7312b28626\" title=\"\u2018Wings like cracked eggshells\u2019: Richard Branson faces turbulence over safety of space flights\" \/>Investors are pursuing legal action against Virgin Galactic, claiming the company\u2019s two spacecraft were not designed for regular space travel<br \/>\nIn a desert basin in New Mexico, Richard Branson hopes history will be made later this year with the launch of Virgin Galactic\u2019s first commercial flights to the edge of space, with tickets costing about $450,000 (\u00a3370,000) each.<br \/>\nIt is an ambitious schedule to launch the \u201cworld\u2019s first commercial spaceliner\u201d at Spaceport America, even though it is already more than a decade late. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investors are pursuing legal action against Virgin Galactic, claiming the company\u2019s two spacecraft were not designed for regular space travel In a desert basin in New Mexico, Richard Branson hopes history will be made later this year with the launch of Virgin Galactic\u2019s first commercial flights to the edge of space, with tickets costing about &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/14\/wings-like-cracked-eggshells-richard-branson-faces-turbulence-over-safety-of-space-flights\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Wings like cracked eggshells\u2019: Richard Branson faces turbulence over safety of space flights<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8618,"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\/8617"}],"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=8617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}