{"id":460515,"date":"2010-03-22T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2237244"},"modified":"2010-03-22T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T20:20:00","slug":"first-flight-for-spaceshiptwo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/460515","title":{"rendered":"First flight for SpaceShipTwo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV align=center><br \/>\n<TABLE id=table1><br \/>\n<TBODY><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><IMG border=1 src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/i\/MSNBC\/Components\/Photo\/_new\/100316-coslog-xss2flying-466px-1245p.jpg\" width=466 height=242><BR><br \/>\n<DIV align=right><FONT size=1 face=Tahoma align=\"right\">Mark Greenberg \/ Virgin Galactic<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<DIV align=left><FONT size=1 face=Verdana align=\"left\">The SpaceShipTwo rocket plane is attached between the twin fuselages of its <BR>WhiteKnightTwo carrier airplane, as seen from below during Monday&#8217;s test flight <BR>from California&#8217;s Mojave Air and Space Port. <BR><br \/>\n<HR><br \/>\n<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/DIV><br \/>\n<P>Virgin Galactic&#8217;s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane took to the air for the first time this morning from California&#8217;s Mojave Air and Space Port.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>The craft,&nbsp;which has been <A href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2009\/12\/07\/2143953.aspx\">christened the&nbsp;VSS Enterprise<\/A>,&nbsp;remained firmly attached to its WhiteKnightTwo carrier airplane throughout the nearly three-hour test flight. It will take many months of further tests&nbsp;before SpaceShipTwo actually goes into outer space. Nevertheless, today&#8217;s outing marks an important milestone along a path that could take paying passengers to the final frontier as early as 2011 or 2012.<\/P>&#8230;(<a href=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/archive\/2010\/03\/22\/2237244.aspx\">read more<\/a>)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=2237244\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Greenberg \/ Virgin Galactic The SpaceShipTwo rocket plane is attached between the twin fuselages of its WhiteKnightTwo carrier airplane, as seen from below during Monday&#8217;s test flight from California&#8217;s Mojave Air and Space Port. Virgin Galactic&#8217;s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane took to the air for the first time this morning from California&#8217;s Mojave Air and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460515","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\/5371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}