{"id":206,"date":"2003-04-21T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2003-04-22T07:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=206"},"modified":"2003-04-21T17:09:06","modified_gmt":"2003-04-22T07:09:06","slug":"private-sector-space-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2003\/04\/21\/private-sector-space-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Private-sector space flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last,&nbsp;a company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaled.com\/\">Scaled Composites<\/a>&nbsp;appears to be having a serious try at&nbsp;non-government-funded space flight. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/sci\/tech\/2956103.stm\">BBC news<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>&#8220;The event is not about dreams, predictions or mock-ups. We will show actual flight hardware: an aircraft for high-altitude airborne launch, a flight-ready manned spaceship, a new, ground-tested rocket propulsion system and much more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Lots of info and photos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaled.com\/projects\/tierone\/index.htm\">here<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaled.com\/projects\/tierone\/photos\/images\/WK%20airborne%20above%20front%20right.jpg\">Proteus<\/a> launch aircraft looks realy cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At last,&nbsp;a company called Scaled Composites&nbsp;appears to be having a serious try at&nbsp;non-government-funded space flight. According to BBC news: &#8220;The event is not about dreams, predictions or mock-ups. We will show actual flight hardware: an aircraft for high-altitude airborne launch, a flight-ready manned spaceship, a new, ground-tested rocket propulsion system and much more.&#8221; Lots of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2003\/04\/21\/private-sector-space-flight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Private-sector space flight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}