{"id":3970,"date":"2025-03-14T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzz7.info\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2025-03-14T13:00:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T13:00:38","slug":"richard-branson-wants-to-launch-space-tourist-flights-from-the-uk-with-cornish-spaceport-lined-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/?p=3970","title":{"rendered":"Richard Branson wants to launch space tourist flights from the UK, with Cornish spaceport lined up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"attribution\">Picture: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-file-photo-556813970.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Alamy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"contextual-nav__header\">UK News<\/p>\n<p class=\"standfirst\">Sir Richard Branson said he wants to establish a British spaceport in Cornwall to launch tourists into the stars as the latest part of his Virgin Galactic project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"LBC Article Links\">The Virgin Galactic boss said he would &#8220;dearly love&#8221; to send tourists into space from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/news\/uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/news\/uk\/\">UK soil. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"LBC Article Links\">Cornwall&#8217;s Spaceport has welcomed the idea and have said they are open to talks with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/hot-topics\/elon-musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.lbc.co.uk\/hot-topics\/elon-musk\/\">tech<\/a> giant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"LBC Article Links\">\u201cTwo years from now Virgin Galactic has the potential of putting up 700 people per year,\u201d Branson told the Space-Comm Expo at London&#8217;s ExCel Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"LBC Article Links\">The British billionaire said that the ship would be &#8220;able to fly twice a week&#8221;, and that will &#8220;start driving down the price&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-text\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"LBC Article Links\">This comes as Virgin Galactic planes currently offer to fly tourists into space for \u00a3356,000, following two months of checks, from New Mexico, USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture: Alamy UK News Sir Richard Branson said he wants to establish a British spaceport in Cornwall to launch tourists into the stars as the latest part of his Virgin Galactic project. The Virgin Galactic boss said he would &#8220;dearly love&#8221; to send tourists into space from UK soil. Cornwall&#8217;s Spaceport has welcomed the idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3973,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions\/3973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buzz7.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}