{"id":122515,"date":"2021-05-12T11:23:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-has-begun-its-1-4-billion-mile-journey-back-to-earth-and-its-carrying-historic-asteroid-samples"},"modified":"2021-05-12T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T18:23:08","slug":"nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-has-begun-its-1-4-billion-mile-journey-back-to-earth-and-its-carrying-historic-asteroid-samples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-has-begun-its-1-4-billion-mile-journey-back-to-earth-and-its-carrying-historic-asteroid-samples","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has begun its 1.4 billion mile journey back to Earth \u2014 and it\u2019s carrying historic asteroid samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-osiris-rex-spacecraft-has-begun-its-1-4-billion-mile-journey-back-to-earth-and-its-carrying-historic-asteroid-samples3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After nearly five years in space, a NASA spacecraft is nearing the end of its historic mission, beginning its journey home to Earth with a plethora of asteroid samples.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft began its journey back to Earth on Monday \u2014 a trip that\u2019s expected to take around two-and-a-half years. It\u2019s returning from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, and it marks NASA\u2019s first-ever asteroid sample return mission.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft is only about 200 million miles away, but it will have to circle the sun twice to catch up to Earth \u2014 making the journey a total of 1.4 billion miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly five years in space, a NASA spacecraft is nearing the end of its historic mission, beginning its journey home to Earth with a plethora of asteroid samples. NASA\u2019s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft began its journey back to Earth on Monday \u2014 a trip that\u2019s expected to take [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122515","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=122515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}