{"id":4013,"date":"2011-11-16T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgeanswers.com\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2011-11-16T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T13:43:07","slug":"first-family-to-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/de\/first-family-to-space\/","title":{"rendered":"FIRST FAMILY TO SPACE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hedgeanswers.com\/images\/uploads\/\/Screen_Shot_2011-11-16_at_09.09.43.png\" alt=\"First family to space\" width=\"163\" height=\"148\" \/>Americans may have taken the first steps on the moon, but according to AFP an unnamed &#8220;Singaporean businessman, his wife and two children have paid USD one million to become the first Asian family to fly together on space-tourism airline Virgin Galactic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Attenborough, the Virgin Galactic commercial director, noted,\u201cI had lunch yesterday with a guy who got in touch with us in Singapore, and over lunch he signed his contract for not just a seat, but for a whole flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For USD one million this Singaporean family &#8220;will become, the first family from Asia to become astronauts together.&#8221; The businessman &#8220;chartered one exclusive flight for his family on the six-seat aircraft SpaceShipTwo,&#8221; and the family remains unnamed since the wife appears to still be in the dark about their upcoming space journey.<\/p>\n<p>The blog Luxuo reports, &#8220;Virgin Galactic has sold bookings since 2005 at USD 200,000 per seat even though it has not yet set a firm timetable for space flights to be launched from New Mexico.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Singapore is one of Asia\u2019s highest concentrations of millionaires and Singaporeans have purchased nine out of the nearly 500 tickets sold worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Galactic has already ordered another spacecraft to meet the expected demand for space tourism.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans may have taken the first steps on the moon, but according to AFP an unnamed &#8220;Singaporean businessman, his wife and two children have paid USD one million to become the first Asian family to fly together on space-tourism airline Virgin Galactic.&#8221; Stephen Attenborough, the Virgin Galactic commercial director, noted,\u201cI had lunch yesterday with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[80,81,33],"class_list":["post-4013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-life","tag-singapore","tag-space","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aandcadvisors.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}