{"id":114781,"date":"2020-10-20T19:25:33","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T02:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/touchdown-nasa-makes-touchdown-on-asteroid-bennu-to-collect-samples"},"modified":"2020-10-20T19:25:33","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T02:25:33","slug":"touchdown-nasa-makes-touchdown-on-asteroid-bennu-to-collect-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/touchdown-nasa-makes-touchdown-on-asteroid-bennu-to-collect-samples","title":{"rendered":"Touchdown! NASA makes touchdown on asteroid Bennu to collect samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2020\/10\/20\/4226119275956779117\/1024x576_MP4_4226119275956779117.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trib.al\/sciencetech\/nasa\/index.html\" id=\"mol-fc3c9bc0-131a-11eb-a5f8-517c31086eac\">NASA<\/a>\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has made a historic touchdown on the asteroid Bennu, dodging boulders the size of buildings to collect samples from the surface for several seconds before safely backing away Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The meticulous descent took 4.5 hours and by 6.12pm the spacecraft made touchdown where its 11-foot robotic arm acted like a pogo stick and bounced on the asteroid\u2019s surface to collect dirt and dust before the craft launched back into space.<\/p>\n<p>The crucial minutes in the mission started around 5.38pm when the spacecraft extended its arm and cameras toward the asteroid\u2019s surface. By 6pm OSIRIS-REx made matchpoint burn, the spacecraft\u2019s key final maneuver performed by firing its thrusters to match Bennu\u2019s spin to center itself exactly over the landing spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has made a historic touchdown on the asteroid Bennu, dodging boulders the size of buildings to collect samples from the surface for several seconds before safely backing away Tuesday evening. The meticulous descent took 4.5 hours and by 6.12pm the spacecraft made touchdown where its 11-foot robotic arm acted like a pogo [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114781","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=114781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}