{"id":17350,"date":"2021-07-13T09:03:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T09:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=17350"},"modified":"2021-07-13T09:03:55","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T09:03:55","slug":"hundreds-of-tourists-apply-for-a-space-trip-after-bransons-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=17350","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Tourists Apply for a Space Trip After Branson&#8217;s Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Virgin Galactic has received about 600 applications from those wishing to fly into space after its owner, British billionaire Richard Branson, flew beyond Earth&#8217;s gravity and successfully returned to earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; July 13, 2021 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?cat=22\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Tourism and Travel<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everyone is willing to pay about $ 250,000 for a space trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Branson&#8217;s flight into space:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On July 11, Virgin Galactic&#8217;s first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=16794\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"16794\">tourist <\/a>suborbital flight reached the space border and successfully landed at the America Cosmodrome in New Mexico, USA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Onboard were 70-year-old British billionaire and Virgin Galactic owner Richard Branson, two pilots &#8211; Dave McKay and Michael Masucci, astronauts Sirish Bundle, Killeen Bennett, and Bette Moses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The next generation of dreamers: if we could do it, I can&#8217;t even imagine you could,&#8221; Branson said during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=16925\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"16925\">flight<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Virgin Galactic was founded in 2004. Its goal is to establish tourist suborbital space flights and launches of small artificial satellites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Read Also: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=14242\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"14242\">Kevin Spacey Returns to the Cinema<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Source<\/span>: <span style=\"color:#faf400\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Ukrgate<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic has received about 600 applications from those wishing to fly into space after its owner, British billionaire Richard Branson, flew beyond Earth&#8217;s gravity and successfully returned to earth. Kyiv. Ukraine. Ukraine Gate &#8211; July 13, 2021 \u2013 Tourism and Travel Everyone is willing to pay about $ 250,000 for a space trip. 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