{"id":8532,"date":"2014-08-10T01:45:31","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T05:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8532"},"modified":"2014-08-10T11:38:14","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T15:38:14","slug":"spaceshiptwo-books-including-a-model-kit-available-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8532","title":{"rendered":"SpaceShipTwo books, including a model kit, available soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Galactic<\/a> and DK publishing are collaborating on a set of activity books, with models and stickers, based around\u00a0the theme of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/overview\/spaceships\/\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceShipTwo<\/a> rocket vehicle and aimed at young people:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virgingalactic.com\/news\/item\/virgin-galactic-partners-with-global-publisher-dk\/\" target=\"_d\">Virgin Galactic Partners with Global Publishers DK &#8211; Virgin Galactic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/collectspace.com\/news\/news-080514a-virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-dk-books.html\" target=\"_d\">&#8216;Make Your Own SpaceShipTwo&#8217; and other books part of new Virgin Galactic deal &#8211;\u00a0collectSPACE<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first three of seven books total will be available in October:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/us.dk.com\/nf\/Search\/QuickSearchProc\/1,,Virgin%20Galactic,00.html?id=Virgin%20Galactic\" target=\"_d\">Virgin Galactic &#8211; DK.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1465424512&amp;asins=1465424512&amp;linkId=FBDRW4FJBQPM23MD&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1465424709&amp;asins=1465424709&amp;linkId=A2ANAMBPTXQTB5TO&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=1465424431&amp;asins=1465424431&amp;linkId=P7S6IV3KVXK56KOS&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Galactic and DK publishing are collaborating on a set of activity books, with models and stickers, based around\u00a0the theme of the SpaceShipTwo rocket vehicle and aimed at young people: Virgin Galactic Partners with Global Publishers DK &#8211; Virgin Galactic &#8216;Make Your Own SpaceShipTwo&#8217; and other books part of new Virgin Galactic deal &#8211;\u00a0collectSPACE The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8532\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SpaceShipTwo books, including a model kit, available soon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,43,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockets","category-space-books","category-space-models"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2dC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2029,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2029","url_meta":{"origin":8532,"position":0},"title":"Galactic Unite lesson plans based on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo test flights","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday. 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