{"id":237421,"date":"2026-05-19T23:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/nasas-psyche-mission-aces-mars-flyby-targets-metal-rich-asteroid"},"modified":"2026-05-19T23:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:02:54","slug":"nasas-psyche-mission-aces-mars-flyby-targets-metal-rich-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/nasas-psyche-mission-aces-mars-flyby-targets-metal-rich-asteroid","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Psyche Mission Aces Mars Flyby, Targets Metal-Rich Asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-psyche-mission-aces-mars-flyby-targets-metal-rich-asteroid2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Psyche spacecraft completed its close approach of Mars on May 15, coming within 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers) of the planet\u2019s surface. This flyby used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Psyche spacecraft completed its close approach of Mars on May 15, coming within 2,864 miles (4,609 kilometers) of the planet\u2019s surface. This flyby used<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237421","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}