{"id":94608598,"date":"2011-10-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/virgin-galactic-continued-delays\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T10:21:12","slug":"virgin-galactic-continued-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/virgin-galactic-continued-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic Continued Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 450px; height: 340px;\" title=\"Virgin Galactic Continued Delays, IMG cred: iJustine\" src=\"\/miles-away\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2011\/10\/Picture45.png\" alt=\"Virgin Galactic Continued Delays, IMG cred: iJustine\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Virgin Galactic still up in the air?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Though most tourists can name a whole selection of top international destinations they wish to visit on their home planet, for some, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ww.cheapoair.com\/flights\/\">cheap flights<\/a><\/strong> on Earth are not quite enough to satisfy their curious minds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nBut for one super businessman and member of 20 Board of Directors, the timely wait for a vacation to Space has come to an end. Alan Walton has asked for a refund on his $200,000 ticket to board the Virgin Galactic Space tourist adventure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nPitched in 2004 to an awestruck audience, <strong>Richard Branson predicted that Virgin Galactic would finally take off in 2007<\/strong>. Four years later however, and one hopeful astronaut has handed over his much coveted ticket in exchange for a refund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n\u201cEverything in aerospace always takes longer than you originally think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nJohn Gedmark Executive Director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation said regarding the delayed take off of the Galactic adventure, but he praised the safety testing process that has caused the delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nBut Chief Executive of Virgin Galactic George Whitesides remained positive,<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n\u201cFolks are tremendously loyal and excited. They want us to do it safely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nAnd with only 10 registered passengers dropping out of the venture, 450 ticket holders remain in spite of Walton\u2019s personal decision to back out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n\u201cThis was a decision I wish I didn\u2019t have to make,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nAre you tired of waiting? Fancy a last minute vacation before your exploration of the galaxy? While <strong><a href=\"\/tag\/space%20tourism\/default\">space tourism<\/a><\/strong> seems further away than ever, book cheap flights to hundreds of international destinations on Earth with CheapOair.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/dream-over-virgin-galactic-space-tourist-073153281.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yahoo<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Photo:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ijustine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">iJustine\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Virgin Galactic still up in the air? Though most tourists can name a whole selection of top international destinations they wish to visit on their home planet, for some, cheap flights on Earth are not quite enough to satisfy their curious minds. But for one super businessman and member of 20 Board of Directors, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97201595,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608598\/revisions\/97201595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}