{"id":128833,"date":"2021-10-10T15:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T22:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/nasas-asteroid-spacecraft-lucy-launches-this-week-on-ambitious-12-year-mission"},"modified":"2021-10-10T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T22:23:04","slug":"nasas-asteroid-spacecraft-lucy-launches-this-week-on-ambitious-12-year-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/nasas-asteroid-spacecraft-lucy-launches-this-week-on-ambitious-12-year-mission","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s asteroid spacecraft Lucy launches this week on ambitious 12-year mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-asteroid-spacecraft-lucy-launches-this-week-on-ambitious-12-year-mission2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s next asteroid-bound mission to explore the earliest days of our solar system is nearly ready to launch.<\/p>\n<p>The Lucy spacecraft is targeting a launch window that opens on Saturday (Oct. 16). After blastoff, the spacecraft will make a 12-year journey to the outer solar system, where it will visit half a dozen ancient \u201cTrojan\u201d asteroids that orbit in the same path as the planet Jupiter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s next asteroid-bound mission to explore the earliest days of our solar system is nearly ready to launch. The Lucy spacecraft is targeting a launch window that opens on Saturday (Oct. 16). After blastoff, the spacecraft will make a 12-year journey to the outer solar system, where it will visit half a dozen ancient \u201cTrojan\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128833","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=128833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}