{"id":318,"date":"2004-06-20T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2004-06-20T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2004-06-20T22:00:05","modified_gmt":"2004-06-20T22:00:05","slug":"mondays_private_manned_spaceship_launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Monday&#8217;s Private Manned Spaceship Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/graphics\/2004\/06\/20\/wspace20.jpg\"><br \/>\nMojave Airport, with its stands of refreshments (orange soda and doughnuts) is the site of Monday Morning&#8217;s Spaceship One Launch.   This will be the first privately funded initiative into orbit &#8211; paving the way for space tourism.  Mike Hodgkinson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2004\/06\/20\/wspace20.xml&#038;sSheet=\/news\/2004\/06\/20\/ixnewstop.html\">updates us from Mojave<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaled.com\/projects\/tierone\/melvill.htm\">Mike Melvill<\/a> is the pilot of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaled.com\/projects\/tierone\/index.htm\">Burt Rutan designed craft<\/a>.  Microsoft billionaire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaled.com\/projects\/tierone\/062104.htm\">Paul Allen has backed<\/a> the project with $20M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mojave Airport, with its stands of refreshments (orange soda and doughnuts) is the site of Monday Morning&#8217;s Spaceship One Launch. This will be the first privately funded initiative into orbit &#8211; paving the way for space tourism. Mike Hodgkinson updates us from Mojave. Mike Melvill is the pilot of this Burt Rutan designed craft. Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}