{"id":409401,"date":"2021-09-20T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T17:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=409401"},"modified":"2021-09-20T14:47:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T17:47:44","slug":"billionaires-initiate-the-age-of-space-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/billionaires-initiate-the-age-of-space-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaires initiate the age of space tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July was the month of space tourism. On the 11<sup>th<\/sup>, British billionaire Richard Branson (<em>photograph<\/em>), founder of the Virgin group, and five other employees of Virgin Galactic, the company that plans to take tourists into space for US$250,000 each, climbed to an altitude of 86 kilometers (km) on the spaceplane VSS Unity. Launched from a standard airplane, VSS Unity surpassed the 80 km barrier\u2014defined by NASA as the boundary between the atmosphere and space; although the International Aeronautical Federation sets this limit at 100 km\u2014in a flight that lasted less than 15 minutes, spending part of the time in a microgravity environment in which people can float. On the 20<sup>th<\/sup>, which was the 52<sup>nd<\/sup> anniversary of humankind\u2019s first steps on the moon, it was the turn of American entrepreneur Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world. Bezos, who founded Amazon and owns <em>The Washington Post<\/em>, made an 11-minute flight with his brother Mark, reaching an altitude of 106 km aboard the New Shepard, a suborbital rocket built by the company Blue Origin. They were accompanied on the pilotless flight by 82-year-old aviator Wally Funk, who was part of a NASA space program in the 1960s but was unable to go into space at the time, and by 18-year-old Dutchman Oliver Daemen, whose ticket was paid for by his father. SpaceX, the company owned by billionaire Elon Musk, plans to take civilians into space later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billionaires initiate the age of space tourism","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":409536,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[228,243],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-409401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes","tag-engineering","tag-innovation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409859,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409401\/revisions\/409859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409401"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=409401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}