{"id":229658,"date":"2021-07-11T09:59:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T14:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=229658"},"modified":"2021-07-11T13:13:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T18:13:22","slug":"billionaire-branson-reaches-orbit-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=229658","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Branson Reaches Space Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truth or Consequences, NM\u00a0 (AP \/\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/technology\/virgin-galactic-space-launch-richard-branson-spaceport-america-new-mexico\">FOX News<\/a>) \u2014 Thrill-seeking billionaire Richard Branson has reached space aboard his own winged rocket ship in his boldest adventure yet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>video from NASA &#8211; starts at 1 hr into video<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3KI2_cpR9Ek?start=3605\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The feat vaults the nearly 71-year-old Branson past fellow billionaire and rival Jeff Bezos, who is planning to fly to space in a craft of his own nine days from now. Branson and five crewmates from his Virgin Galactic space tourism company reached an altitude of about 53 miles (88 kilometers) over the New Mexico desert \u2014 enough to experience three to four minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of the Earth \u2014 and then safely glided back home to a runway landing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth or Consequences, NM\u00a0 (AP \/\u00a0\u00a0FOX News) \u2014 Thrill-seeking billionaire Richard Branson has reached space aboard his own winged rocket ship in his boldest adventure yet. video from NASA &#8211; starts at 1 hr into video The feat vaults the nearly 71-year-old Branson past fellow billionaire and rival Jeff Bezos, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":229668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229658"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229667,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229658\/revisions\/229667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}