{"id":1612,"date":"2009-12-08T03:37:45","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T08:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2020-05-18T13:25:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T18:25:01","slug":"virgin-galactic-plane-prepares-for-space-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2009\/12\/08\/virgin-galactic-plane-prepares-for-space-tourists\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic Plane Prepares for Space Tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sci-tech-today.com\/story.xhtml?story_id=013000AC24AB\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"172\" height=\"124\" data-attachment-id=\"1613\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2009\/12\/08\/virgin-galactic-plane-prepares-for-space-tourists\/story-09-spaceshiptwo-01a\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2009\/12\/story-09-SpaceShipTwo-01A.jpg?fit=172%2C124&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"172,124\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Spaceship2\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Space Ship 2 by Virgin Galactic&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Space Ship Two concept art&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/files\/2009\/12\/story-09-SpaceShipTwo-01A.jpg?fit=172%2C124&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.chuckchat.com\/staging\/files\/2009\/12\/story-09-SpaceShipTwo-01A.jpg?resize=172%2C124&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Space Ship Two concept art\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1613\" \/><\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/bytemarks.org\">@Bytemarks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, you may have heard this one before, but Richard Branson is taking pre-orders for $200,000 flights slated for 2011 &#8211; 2012.  For only 10% down, your name goes on the list with 300 others.  The last time I heard about this, it was a couple of years ago and the price was ~$250,000.  Maybe in another decade it won&#8217;t be a laughably outrageous price.<\/p>\n<p>Marv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>via @Bytemarks Well, you may have heard this one before, but Richard Branson is taking pre-orders for $200,000 flights slated for 2011 &#8211; 2012. For only 10% down, your name goes on the list with 300 others. The last time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2009\/12\/08\/virgin-galactic-plane-prepares-for-space-tourists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[486,487,489,572],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-space","tag-space-flight","tag-space-ship-2","tag-virgin-galactic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe53l-q0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}