{"id":111228,"date":"2020-08-13T02:55:01","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T09:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/nasa-next-week-nasas-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample-return-mission-will-practice-touching-asteroid-bennu-one-last-time-before-its-big-moment"},"modified":"2020-08-13T02:55:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T09:55:01","slug":"nasa-next-week-nasas-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample-return-mission-will-practice-touching-asteroid-bennu-one-last-time-before-its-big-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/nasa-next-week-nasas-osiris-rex-asteroid-sample-return-mission-will-practice-touching-asteroid-bennu-one-last-time-before-its-big-moment","title":{"rendered":"NASA: Next week, NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission will practice touching asteroid Bennu one last time before its big moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/Vocativ\/videos\/618744655434658\/\" data-width=\"625\" data-allowfullscreen=\"false\" data-autoplay=\"false\"><\/div>\n<p>Next week, <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OSIRISREx\/?fref=mentions\">NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission<\/a> will practice touching asteroid Bennu one last time before its big moment. The 4-hour excursion will bring the spacecraft to just 131 ft (40 m) above Bennu.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a preview of the rehearsal: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/30zVOgR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><a href=\"https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/30zVOgR\">https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/30zVOgR<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission will practice touching asteroid Bennu one last time before its big moment. The 4-hour excursion will bring the spacecraft to just 131 ft (40 m) above Bennu. Here\u2019s a preview of the rehearsal: https:\/\/go.nasa.gov\/30zVOgR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}