{"id":237102,"date":"2026-05-14T02:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/nasas-psyche-spacecraft-is-about-to-fly-shockingly-close-to-mars"},"modified":"2026-05-14T02:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T07:27:07","slug":"nasas-psyche-spacecraft-is-about-to-fly-shockingly-close-to-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/nasas-psyche-spacecraft-is-about-to-fly-shockingly-close-to-mars","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Psyche Spacecraft Is About To Fly Shockingly Close to Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zTXNBoAzJbI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Psyche spacecraft is using a daring close flyby of Mars to slingshot toward one of the solar system\u2019s strangest asteroids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Psyche spacecraft is using a daring close flyby of Mars to slingshot toward one of the solar system\u2019s strangest asteroids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237102","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}