{"id":1571,"date":"2009-12-13T08:39:58","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/some-things-even-virgin-can%e2%80%99t-control\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T08:39:58","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:39:58","slug":"some-things-even-virgin-can%e2%80%99t-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-flight\/some-things-even-virgin-can%e2%80%99t-control.php","title":{"rendered":"Some things even Virgin can\u2019t control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Virgin Group, including Virgin Galactic, is well known for its planned, glitzy events to showcase the company and their achievements.  Today is scheduled to be no exception: the rollout of SpaceShipTwo in Mojave reportedly will include some kind of lightshow Monday evening.  A check of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pilotweb.nas.faa.gov\/distribution\/home.html\">NOTAMs<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NOTAM\">notices to airmen<\/a>, for Mojave Airport (KMHV), shows that the airport&#8217;s runways will be closed Monday night, and there&#8217;s also a reference to that &#8220;airspace lightshow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>One thing Virgin can&#8217;t control (not yet, anyway) is the weather, and it won&#8217;t be cooperating.  Right now there&#8217;s only report clouds and light rain in Mojave, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/cgi-bin\/findweather\/getForecast?query=93501&amp;MR=1\">the forecast<\/a> mentions snow, and lots of it: up to five inches (12.5 cm) today, and up to two more inches (5 cm) tonight.  Mojave may get much less, but it still doesn&#8217;t look like it will be the most inviting day to roll out a spaceship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virgin Group, including Virgin Galactic, is well known for its planned, glitzy events to showcase the company and their achievements. Today is scheduled to be no exception: the rollout of SpaceShipTwo in Mojave reportedly will include some kind of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-flight\/some-things-even-virgin-can%e2%80%99t-control.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-flight"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}