{"id":95,"date":"2004-10-05T11:26:01","date_gmt":"2004-10-05T18:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2019-01-09T15:57:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T15:57:52","slug":"homage-to-the-x-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/05\/homage-to-the-x-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Homage to the X Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/missionlaunches\/xprize2_success_041004.html\">SpaceShipOne<\/a> soared into space today, the second time in less than a week, and won the X Prize which worth if you were wondering a cool 10 million dollars. Here is how Google honored the winners, who will usher in a new age of space tourism:<br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3747 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/10\/google_xprize.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/10\/google_xprize.jpg 401w, http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/10\/google_xprize-300x125.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/10\/google_xprize-230x96.jpg 230w, http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/10\/google_xprize-350x146.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 401px) 100vw, 401px\" \/><br \/>\nThe ultimate goal of the Burt Ratan crew is to bring the cost of a space flight for passengers down to the price of a low-cost car. I would gladly sell my Yugo to experience weightlessness. Richard Branson is already on the SpaceShipOne bandwagon &#8211; he&#8217;s licensed the technology to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/\">Virgin Galactic,<\/a> a company that will sell flights on a more consumer friendly version of Scaled Composite&#8217;s prize winning spacecraft. Branson says he&#8217;s naming the first plane the V.S.S. Enterprise. Talk about an homage. I hear they are only accepting applications from pilots named either Sulu or Checkov&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceShipOne soared into space today, the second time in less than a week, and won the X Prize which worth if you were wondering a cool 10 million dollars. Here is how Google honored the winners, who will usher in a new age of space tourism: The ultimate goal of the Burt Ratan crew is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[104,589,719],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space","tag-burtrutan","tag-space","tag-xprize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3916,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/3916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}