{"id":1949459,"date":"2025-08-08T14:16:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1949459"},"modified":"2025-08-08T14:16:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:16:45","slug":"7-celebrities-who-have-been-to-space-celebrity-space-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/7-celebrities-who-have-been-to-space-celebrity-space-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Celebrities Who Have Been to Space \u2013 Celebrity Space Tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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While Bezos and Blue Origin accelerated the space tourism craze, Richard Branson kicked it off with his company Virgin Galactic. The brand achieved suborbital space flight for the first time in December 2018, with its VSS Unity craft.<\/p>\n

Branson, 74, went for a ride himself in July 2021\u2014just days before Bezos\u2014and soon opened ticket sales to the public. \u201cThe mission statement that I wrote inside my spacesuit was to turn the dream of space travel into a reality for my grandchildren… and for many people who are alive today, for everybody,\u201d Branson said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The dream is a costly one, though: Virgin Galactic tickets are going for $600,000<\/a> according to the company website. <\/p>\n

Read More About Richard Branson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.biography.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Bezos and Blue Origin accelerated the space tourism craze, Richard Branson kicked it off with his company Virgin Galactic. The brand achieved suborbital space flight for the first time in December 2018, with its VSS Unity craft. Branson, 74, went for a ride himself in July 2021\u2014just days before Bezos\u2014and soon opened ticket sales […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1949460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[336120,340794,307775,286903,285684,340793],"class_list":["post-1949459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-content-type-round-up-general","tag-contentid-d59bf0d3-b33e-4137-b159-6ae76640ae6a","tag-displaytype-listicle","tag-hasproduct-true","tag-locale-us","tag-shorttitle-7-celebrities-whove-left-earth-behind-literally"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/7-Celebrities-Who-Have-Been-to-Space-\u2013-Celebrity-Space.pjpeg.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1949460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}