{"id":4955,"date":"2014-10-31T21:11:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T21:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=4955"},"modified":"2014-11-06T02:57:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T02:57:45","slug":"virgin-galactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=4955","title":{"rendered":"VIRGIN GALACTIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/VIRGIN-GALACTIC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4956\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/VIRGIN-GALACTIC.jpg\" alt=\"VIRGIN GALACTIC\" width=\"2852\" height=\"2406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/VIRGIN-GALACTIC.jpg 2852w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/VIRGIN-GALACTIC-300x253.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/VIRGIN-GALACTIC-1024x863.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2852px) 100vw, 2852px\" \/><\/a><strong>SPACE IS VIRGIN TERRITORY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the heart of London&#8217;s &#8220;Clubland&#8221; on Pall Mall is the booking office for Sir Richard Branson&#8217;s Virgin Galactic, just a hundred yards down from the Reform Club (where Phineas Fogg made his famous bet to go round the world in 80 days! Now we&#8217;re on the verge of space tourists being able to go around the world in 80 minutes!!) and directly across from the Oxford and Cambridge Club. Virgin Galactic is a pioneer in the commercialization of space.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Good thing that during my recent sojourn in London I didn&#8217;t partake in Vintage Port Happy Hour too seriously and stagger across the street to book a flight (Hey, how else am I going \u00a0to get a chance to meet Lady Gaga?). Today, the Virgin Galactic S<\/strong><strong>paceship Two crashed in California&#8217;s Mojave desert killing the pilot.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>All in all a bad week for commercial space. Orbital Science&#8217;s Antares rocket exploded on take-off taking with it a $25,000 space experiment by the students of a Kamloops, British Columbia high school whose beautiful town I was visiting a little over a week ago. Better luck next time!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPACE IS VIRGIN TERRITORY In the heart of London&#8217;s &#8220;Clubland&#8221; on Pall Mall is the booking office for Sir Richard Branson&#8217;s Virgin Galactic, just a hundred yards down from the Reform Club (where Phineas Fogg made his famous bet to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=4955\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-people","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4955"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4981,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4955\/revisions\/4981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}