{"id":13929,"date":"2004-09-28T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/28\/virgin-galactic\/"},"modified":"2004-09-28T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T12:59:00","slug":"virgin-galactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/28\/virgin-galactic\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Virgin Galactic\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/virgingalactic.gif\" \/><\/a>Go figure that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Branson\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Branson<\/a>, the billionaire entrepreneur and adventurer best known for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virgin_Group\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin brand<\/a>, has come up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Galactic<\/a>, a space tourism company promising to &ldquo;to make it possible for almost anyone to visit the final frontier at an affordable price&rdquo; by &ldquo;the end of the decade.&rdquo;  Virgin Galactic is <a href=\"http:\/\/scaled.com\/projects\/tierone\/092704_scaled_paul_allen_virgin_galactic.htm\" target=\"_blank\">licensing the technology developed by Scaled Composites<\/a> in the form of <a href=\"http:\/\/scaled.com\/projects\/tierone\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceShip One<\/a>, which is poised to attempt its flight to win the <a href=\"http:\/\/web1-xprize.primary.net\/launch.php\" target=\"_blank\">X-Prize<\/a> in a matter of days.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-109637446362108889?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go figure that Richard Branson, the billionaire entrepreneur and adventurer best known for the Virgin brand, has come up with Virgin Galactic, a space tourism company promising to &ldquo;to make it possible for almost anyone to visit the final frontier at an affordable price&rdquo; by &ldquo;the end of the decade.&rdquo; Virgin Galactic is licensing the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/09\/28\/virgin-galactic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Virgin Galactic&#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-13929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}