{"id":504218,"date":"2022-07-08T09:52:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T04:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=504218"},"modified":"2022-07-08T10:42:58","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T05:12:58","slug":"boeings-aurora-to-build-virgin-galactic-spaceship-carrier-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/boeings-aurora-to-build-virgin-galactic-spaceship-carrier-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing\u2019s Aurora to build Virgin Galactic spaceship carrier plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic inked an agreement with Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to build the company\u2019s new twin-fuselage carrier plane that will ferry its next-generation spaceship toward space, the companies announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic, the space tourism firm founded by billionaire businessman Richard Branson, has been building a more durable, mass-producable successor to its flagship SpaceShipTwo spaceplane, which drops from the underbelly of a carrier plane before rocketing to the edge of space for a few minutes. <\/p>\n<p>Aurora, Boeing\u2019s aeronautics and aviation research unit, will build two new carrier planes that will support the SpaceShipTwo craft and its successor, which Virgin Galactic calls Delta-class vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic inked an agreement with Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to build the company\u2019s new twin-fuselage carrier plane that will ferry its next-generation spaceship toward space, the companies announced on Wednesday. Virgin Galactic, the space tourism firm founded by billionaire businessman Richard Branson, has been building a more durable, mass-producable successor to its flagship SpaceShipTwo spaceplane, which drops from the underbelly of a carrier plane before rocketing to the edge of space for a few minutes. Aurora, Boeing\u2019s aeronautics and aviation research unit, will build two new carrier planes that will support the SpaceShipTwo craft and its successor, which [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504218","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=504218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}