{"id":8715,"date":"2017-10-09T17:08:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T00:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8715"},"modified":"2017-10-17T17:13:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T00:13:33","slug":"virgin-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/09\/virgin-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/richard-branson-says-hes-going-to-space-but-mars-belongs-to-elon-musk-2017-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from Business Insider<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Richard Branson says he&#8217;s 6 months from going to space \u2014 but Mars belongs to Elon Musk<\/h1>\n<p>by Tom Turula<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static2.businessinsider.com\/image\/59db85126d80ad1e008b4e0d-665\/nbfa82i0999photopasisalminencom.jpg\" alt=\"richard branson\" width=\"480\" data-mce-source=\"Pasi Salminen\/Nordic Business Forum\" \/><em><span class=\"caption-source\"><span class=\"caption\">Richard Branson\u2019s private space program Virgin Galactic has long promised to democratize space travel.<\/span> <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>After thirteen years of development and setbacks\u00a0\u2014 including a fatal crash, technical difficulties and frequent delays\u00a0\u2014 Richard Branson&#8217;s private space program, Virgin Galactic, is soon ready for live action, at least according to Branson himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are hopefully about three months before we are in space, maybe six months before I\u2019m in space,\u201d the founder of Virgin Galactic, which is part of Virgin Group, told an audience at <a href=\"http:\/\/nordic.businessinsider.com\/we-met-up-with-sir-richard-branson-in-a-box-in-finland---and-he-shared-his-views-on-the-nordics-elon-musk-and-obama-2017-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nordic Business Forum<\/a> in Helsinki, Finland last week.<\/p>\n<p>When he received an audience question about who will reach Mars first, he or Elon Musk, Branson made clear he is not as keen on the red star as SpaceX and Tesla&#8217;s founder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not as passionate about Mars as Elon is. My love for space is about how much it can do for people back here on earth, and that\u2019s what Virgin Galactic is pushing towards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/richard-branson-says-hes-going-to-space-but-mars-belongs-to-elon-musk-2017-10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Business Insider<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Business Insider Richard Branson says he&#8217;s 6 months from going to space \u2014 but Mars belongs to Elon Musk by Tom Turula Richard Branson\u2019s private space program Virgin Galactic has long promised to democratize space travel. After thirteen years of development and setbacks\u00a0\u2014 including a fatal crash, technical difficulties and frequent delays\u00a0\u2014 Richard Branson&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}