{"id":1949,"date":"2016-02-20T12:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T04:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/20\/richard-branson-has-big-plans-for-virgin-galactic-beyond-space-planes\/"},"modified":"2016-02-20T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T04:30:20","slug":"richard-branson-has-big-plans-for-virgin-galactic-beyond-space-planes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/20\/richard-branson-has-big-plans-for-virgin-galactic-beyond-space-planes\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Branson has big plans for Virgin Galactic beyond space planes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Branson\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.0.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAyLzIwL2RkL2JyYW5zb24uMjQzZGMuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJNTc1eDMyMyMKZQlqcGc\/0afdb3e5\/0a4\/branson.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Richard+Branson+has+big+plans+for+Virgin+Galactic+beyond+space+planes&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F19%2Frichard-branson-big-plans-virgin-galactic%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F19%2Frichard-branson-big-plans-virgin-galactic%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>MOJAVE, California \u2014 On Friday, Sir Richard Branson unveiled Virgin Galactic&#8217;s newest space plane named Unity with much fanfare:\u00a0Branson stood up in the sunroof of a Land Rover as the car rolled the ship into the hangar here at the Mojave Air and Space Port.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic hopes that this suborbital SpaceShipTwo will be the first in a fleet of commercially operated space planes that will bring paying customers to the edge of space and back again.<\/p>\n<p>But Branson has even bigger plans for Virgin Galactic in the future.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/19\/virgin-galactic-rolls-out-new-spaceshiptwo\/\">Virgin Galactic rolls out &#8216;Unity,&#8217; its first new space plane since 2014 crash<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/19\/richard-branson-big-plans-virgin-galactic\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/private-spaceflight\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Private Spaceflight<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/spaceflight\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Spaceflight<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/commercial-spaceflight\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Commercial Spaceflight<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/richard-branson\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Richard Branson<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/virgin-galactic\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Virgin Galactic<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/eYXlTV2MK7s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOJAVE, California \u2014 On Friday, Sir Richard Branson unveiled Virgin Galactic&#8217;s newest space plane named Unity with much fanfare:\u00a0Branson stood up in the sunroof of a Land Rover as the car rolled the ship into the hangar here at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/20\/richard-branson-has-big-plans-for-virgin-galactic-beyond-space-planes\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1383,1381,1384,1382,1385],"class_list":["post-1949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-commercial-spaceflight","tag-private-spaceflight","tag-richard-branson","tag-spaceflight","tag-virgin-galactic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}