{"id":9658,"date":"2010-03-26T01:15:26","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T01:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/the-vss-enterprise-was-unveiled-last-december-and\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:50:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:50:07","slug":"the-vss-enterprise-was-unveiled-last-december-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/the-vss-enterprise-was-unveiled-last-december-and\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-9658 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/the-vss-enterprise-was-unveiled-last-december-and\/attachment\/9659\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/tumblr_kztdett5jf1qzxaqho1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/tumblr_kztdett5jf1qzxaqho1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/tumblr_kztdett5jf1qzxaqho1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/12\/07\/spaceshiptwo-unveili.html\" target=\"_blank\">The <em>VSS Enterprise<\/em> was unveiled last December<\/a>, and [on March 22nd] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">flew for the first time out of Mojave Spaceport in California<\/a>&hellip; <em>VSS Enterprise<\/em> remained attached to its unique <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scaled_Composites_White_Knight_Two\" target=\"_blank\">White Knight Two<\/a> carrier aircraft, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VMS_Eve\" target=\"_blank\"><em>VMS Eve<\/em><\/a>, for the duration of the 2 hours 54 minutes flight, achieving an altitude of 45,000ft (13716 metres).&ldquo; Both crafts are developed for Sir Richard Branson&rsquo;s Virgin Galactic by Burt Rutan and team at Mojave-based Scaled Composites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VSS Enterprise was unveiled last December, and [on March 22nd] flew for the first time out of Mojave Spaceport in California&hellip; VSS Enterprise remained attached to its unique White Knight Two carrier aircraft, VMS Eve, for the duration of the 2 hours 54 minutes flight, achieving an altitude of 45,000ft (13716 metres).&ldquo; Both crafts &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/26\/the-vss-enterprise-was-unveiled-last-december-and\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658","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=9658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9660,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9658\/revisions\/9660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}