{"id":389433,"date":"2018-12-17T08:21:09","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T07:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-virgin-galactics-plane-reaches-space\/"},"modified":"2018-12-17T08:21:09","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T07:21:09","slug":"prison-planet-com-virgin-galactics-plane-reaches-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-virgin-galactics-plane-reaches-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Virgin Galactic\u2019s Plane Reaches Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mac Slavo<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/virgin-galactics-plane-reaches-space_12132018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SHTFplan.com<\/a><br \/>December 14, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Virgin Galactic, a private company whose goal is to send tourists to space in the near future, created a supersonic plane that was able to reach space. The plane successfully soared into the upper reaches of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere on Thursday for a milestone flight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/13\/tech\/virgin-galactic-reaches-50-mile-space\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>CNN Business<\/em> reported<\/a> that the rocket-powered plane, VSS Unity, was flown by two veteran pilots to a maximum altitude of 51.4 miles, surpassing the 50-mile mark that the U.S. government recognizes as the edge of space. The government uses the 50-mile mark to award astronaut wings.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/12\/12\/tech\/virgin-galactic-first-space-flight\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">test flight<\/a>\u00a0took off from the Mojave Air &amp; Space Port in California at 7:11 am PT.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/private-company-will-reach-space-in-weeks-not-months_10092018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic\u2019s founder,<\/a> was at the launch watching with a crowd of spectators. \u201cI hope we go to space today,\u201d Branson said ahead of liftoff.\u00a0 VSS Unity took off attached to its mothership, WhiteKnightTwo. When they were about 43,000 feet in the air, VSS Unity\u2019s pilots commanded the plane\u2019s release from the mothership. After a few seconds of coasting, VSS Unity\u2019s rocket engine engaged and drove the vehicle directly upward at supersonic speeds.<\/p>\n<p>There has still been no word from Virgin Galactic of when the company plans to be ready to take people into space.\u00a0\u201cIncremental flight test programs are by definition open-ended and, to a great extent, each test depends on the data from the test that precedes it,\u201d the company said. \u201cThere is no guarantee that everything will work perfectly first time and, like all programs seeking to take bold steps, we will inevitably have times when things don\u2019t go as planned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic is set up to compete with\u00a0Blue Origin, the space company founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos in 2000 to offer suborbital tourism flights. Both companies are still in the testing phase, however, Blue Origin has yet to sell any tickets yet.\u00a0 Virgin Galactic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/virgin-galactics-plane-reaches-space.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mac SlavoSHTFplan.comDecember 14, 2018 Virgin Galactic, a private company whose goal is to send tourists to space in the near future, created a supersonic plane that was able to reach space. The plane successfully soared into the upper reaches of the Earth\u2019s atmosphere on Thursday for a milestone flight. CNN Business reported that the rocket-powered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-389433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}