{"id":37567,"date":"2021-07-12T18:35:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T01:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37567"},"modified":"2021-07-12T18:35:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T01:35:59","slug":"a-brief-trip-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37567","title":{"rendered":"A BRIEF TRIP TO SPACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson successfully landed on Earth just after 12 p.m. ET Sunday, becoming the first billionaire to launch into space.<\/p>\n<p>Branson made the trip, which lasted about 90 minutes, in a spaceplane created by his company that launched on Sunday morning after a 90-minute delay. After he exited the spacecraft, he hugged loved ones and celebrated with fans.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What a day, what a day, what a day, what a day,&#8221; Branson said in remarks following the landing.<\/p>\n<p>The launch from Virgin Galactic\u2019s Spaceport America in New Mexico was slightly delayed on Sunday morning due to weather. It came just days before Amazon founder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jnrfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbrjsbts_eptrbbysyfrhshrspzrs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jnrfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbrjsbts_eptrbbysyfrhshrspzrs.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626221845008000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHhVcsUVPCLi8ifam5GwRDLtINK1Q\">Jeff Bezos<\/a>\u00a0is set to launch into space on his own spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson successfully&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37568,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37567\/revisions\/37568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}