{"id":429502,"date":"2021-08-07T09:20:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T03:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=429502"},"modified":"2021-08-07T10:30:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T05:00:05","slug":"virgin-galactic-is-restarting-space-tickets-and-prices-start-from-450000-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/virgin-galactic-is-restarting-space-tickets-and-prices-start-from-450000-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Galactic is restarting space tickets and prices start from $450,000, only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After flying its founder Richard Branson to space, Virgin Galactic is restarting ticket sales beginning at $450,000, the company announced Thursday. The new price is about double the $200,000 to $250,000 paid by around 600 people who previously booked seats on Virgin&#8217;s spaceship between 2005 and 2014, as the company looks to cash in on the success of last month&#8217;s fully-crewed test flight. &#8220;We are excited to announce the reopening of sales effective today,&#8221; said CEO Michael Colglazier in a statement, with first dibs going to people on a waiting list. &#8220;As we endeavor to bring the wonder of space to a broad global population, we are delighted to open the door to an entirely new industry and consumer experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After flying its founder Richard Branson to space, Virgin Galactic is restarting ticket sales beginning at $450,000, the company announced Thursday. The new price is about double the $200,000 to $250,000 paid by around 600 people who previously booked seats on Virgin&#8217;s spaceship between 2005 and 2014, as the company looks to cash in on the success of last month&#8217;s fully-crewed test flight. &#8220;We are excited to announce the reopening of sales effective today,&#8221; said CEO Michael Colglazier in a statement, with first dibs going to people on a waiting list. &#8220;As we endeavor to bring the wonder of space [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}