{"id":150880,"date":"2022-11-23T11:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/nasa-returns-to-the-moon-orion-spacecraft-completes-lunar-flyby"},"modified":"2022-11-23T11:23:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:23:58","slug":"nasa-returns-to-the-moon-orion-spacecraft-completes-lunar-flyby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/nasa-returns-to-the-moon-orion-spacecraft-completes-lunar-flyby","title":{"rendered":"NASA returns to the Moon: Orion Spacecraft completes lunar flyby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-returns-to-the-moon-orion-spacecraft-completes-lunar-flyby2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On its journey to a world-record-breaking orbit, NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft, which had test dummies in place of people, buzzed the lunar surface and whipped around the far side.<\/p>\n<p>It marks a significant accomplishment in the $4.1 billion test journey that started last Wednesday and is the first time a capsule has reached the moon in 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>The crew capsule and its three wired-up dummies maneuvered within 81 miles of the Moon on the far side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On its journey to a world-record-breaking orbit, NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft, which had test dummies in place of people, buzzed the lunar surface and whipped around the far side. It marks a significant accomplishment in the $4.1 billion test journey that started last Wednesday and is the first time a capsule has reached the moon in [\u2026]<\/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-150880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150880","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=150880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}