{"id":122474,"date":"2021-05-10T12:22:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/nasa-spacecraft-carrying-history-making-asteroid-sample-will-head-toward-earth"},"modified":"2021-05-10T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T19:22:52","slug":"nasa-spacecraft-carrying-history-making-asteroid-sample-will-head-toward-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/nasa-spacecraft-carrying-history-making-asteroid-sample-will-head-toward-earth","title":{"rendered":"NASA spacecraft carrying history-making asteroid sample will head toward Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-spacecraft-carrying-history-making-asteroid-sample-will-head-toward-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After spending nearly two-and-a-half years together, a NASA spacecraft will bid farewell to its asteroid companion Monday and begin the long journey back to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is NASA\u2019s first asteroid sample return mission, and it carries a generous amount of material collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending nearly two-and-a-half years together, a NASA spacecraft will bid farewell to its asteroid companion Monday and begin the long journey back to Earth. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is NASA\u2019s first asteroid sample return mission, and it carries a generous amount of material collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122474","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}