{"id":95785492,"date":"2010-10-11T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T14:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/virgin-galactic-completes-first-manned-test-flight-video\/"},"modified":"2010-10-11T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T14:27:00","slug":"virgin-galactic-completes-first-manned-test-flight-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/virgin-galactic-completes-first-manned-test-flight-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic Completes First Manned Test Flight (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mDUVe3a496Y?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mDUVe3a496Y?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nVirgin Galactic&#39;s SpaceShipTwo successfully completed its first ever glide flight Sunday.&nbsp; After being released from its mothership at 45,000 feet in the air, Enterprise landed on a runway at California&#39;s Mojave Air and Space Port.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe goals of the flight that were achieved included a clean release from the mothership and a smooth free flight back to landing. This allowed Virgin to look at&nbsp; the plane&#39;s performance characteristics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo far Virgin Galactic has 370 curious travelers&#39; deposits, which totals<br \/>\nabout $50 million in ticket sales, for commercial flights into space.&nbsp; Flights will depart from New Mexico&#39;s Spaceport America, which will have a runway inauguration on October 22.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nScaled Composites pilot Pete Siebold said in a news release: &quot;The VSS Enterprise was a real joy to fly, especially when one<br \/>\nconsiders the fact that the vehicle has been designed not only to be a<br \/>\nMach 3.5 spaceship capable of going into space but also one of the<br \/>\nworlds highest altitude gliders.&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Virgin Galactic&#39;s SpaceShipTwo successfully completed its first ever glide flight Sunday.&nbsp; After being released from its mothership at 45,000 feet in the air, Enterprise landed on a runway at California&#39;s Mojave Air and Space Port. &nbsp; The goals of the flight that were achieved included a clean release from the mothership and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95785492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785492","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=95785492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95785492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95785492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95785492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95785492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}