{"id":169625,"date":"2023-08-13T14:23:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T19:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/after-17-years-a-spacecraft-makes-its-first-visit-home-having-made-history"},"modified":"2023-08-13T14:23:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T19:23:59","slug":"after-17-years-a-spacecraft-makes-its-first-visit-home-having-made-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/after-17-years-a-spacecraft-makes-its-first-visit-home-having-made-history","title":{"rendered":"After 17 Years, A Spacecraft Makes its First Visit Home Having Made History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-17-years-a-spacecraft-makes-its-first-visit-home-having-made-history2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A spacecraft that gave us our first multiple-perspective view of the Sun is set to flyby Earth for the first time since launch 17 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s STEREO-A spacecraft will pass between the Sun and Earth on Saturday, August 12th, with the agency exclaiming \u201cour teenage spacecraft is visiting home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The twin STEREO (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) spacecraft launched on October 25th, 2006 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spacecraft that gave us our first multiple-perspective view of the Sun is set to flyby Earth for the first time since launch 17 years ago. NASA\u2019s STEREO-A spacecraft will pass between the Sun and Earth on Saturday, August 12th, with the agency exclaiming \u201cour teenage spacecraft is visiting home.\u201d The twin STEREO (Solar TErrestrial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169625","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=169625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}