{"id":13917,"date":"2004-10-04T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/04\/spaceshipone-wins-the-x-prize\/"},"modified":"2004-10-04T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-04T22:00:00","slug":"spaceshipone-wins-the-x-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/04\/spaceshipone-wins-the-x-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceShipOne Wins The X-Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scaled.com\/projects\/tierone\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SpaceShipOne\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/spaceshipone.JPG\" \/><\/a>After reaching space for the second time in a week,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TECH\/space\/10\/04\/spaceshipone.attempt.cnn\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceShipOne and its carrier aircraft White Knight have captured the coveted X-Price<\/a>, winning the $10 million award and, more importantly, the prestige of becoming the <a href=\"http:\/\/scaled.com\/projects\/tierone\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">first privately funded aircraft<\/a> to consistently reach space.  Congratulations!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6167761\" target=\"_blank\">MSNBC&rsquo;s coverage<\/a> includes some nice video clips of the flight as well as some post-flight interviews.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109692724057895149?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reaching space for the second time in a week, SpaceShipOne and its carrier aircraft White Knight have captured the coveted X-Price, winning the $10 million award and, more importantly, the prestige of becoming the first privately funded aircraft to consistently reach space. Congratulations! Update: MSNBC&rsquo;s coverage includes some nice video clips of the flight &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/04\/spaceshipone-wins-the-x-prize\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SpaceShipOne Wins The X-Prize&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}