{"id":43299,"date":"2023-06-29T18:36:46","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T18:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/06\/29\/inside-virgin-atlantics-rocket-plane-to-space\/"},"modified":"2023-06-29T18:36:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T18:36:46","slug":"inside-virgin-atlantics-rocket-plane-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=43299","title":{"rendered":"Inside Virgin Atlantic&#8217;s rocket plane to space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Sir Richard Branson&#8217;s Virgin Galactic rocket plane has carried customers into space, in its first commercial flight. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The 90-minute mission was purchased for the Italian Air Force and the Italian National Research Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The unity vehicle climbed high over the New Mexico desert to the edge of space, before gliding back down to earth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The mission took off from Spaceport America at around 0830 local time (1430 GMT) and was livestreamed around the world.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-66060602?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Sir Richard Branson&#8217;s Virgin Galactic rocket plane has carried customers into space, in its first commercial flight. The 90-minute mission was purchased for the Italian Air Force and the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}