{"id":444441,"date":"2010-03-18T12:23:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T16:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.greenlaunches.com,2010:\/\/19.53929"},"modified":"2010-03-19T15:20:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T19:20:27","slug":"virgin-defends-its-fuel-efficient-space-flight-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/444441","title":{"rendered":"Virgin defends its fuel-efficient space flight program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/Virgin_Galactic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Virgin_Galactic.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenlaunches.com\/Virgin_Galactic-thumb-450x532.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"532\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\"\/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nRichard Branson\u2019s Plan to commercialize space journey, through his company Virgin Galactic, was highly criticized by environmentalists because it was promoting a high carbon emission activity in an already polluted environment. However, that may not be the case according to Alan Knight, a senior brand advisor to Virgin group. According to Knight, technology used in space travel has not improved in the last 30 years, however, the modern technology and light-weight materials that will be used in making Virgin Galactic shuttles may be possible to be incorporated into commercial aircrafts, thus reducing fuel consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Though this concept was initiated bearing in mind only the fun part of it, it may prove to be a boon to the current space travel situation which right now, is a highly polluting activity. <br \/>\n[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessgreen.com\/business-green\/news\/2259684\/virgin-defends-green-space\">businessgreen<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Branson\u2019s Plan to commercialize space journey, through his company Virgin Galactic, was highly criticized by environmentalists because it was promoting a high carbon emission activity in an already polluted environment. However, that may not be the case according to Alan Knight, a senior brand advisor to Virgin group. According to Knight, technology used in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}