{"id":81668,"date":"2018-08-12T06:43:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T13:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/its-official-were-headed-to-touch-the-sun"},"modified":"2018-08-12T06:43:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T13:43:11","slug":"its-official-were-headed-to-touch-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/its-official-were-headed-to-touch-the-sun","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s official \u2014 we\u2019re headed to \u201ctouch\u201d the Sun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-official-were-headed-to-touch-the-sun2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our #ParkerSolarProbe spacecraft lifted off at 3:31 a.m. EDT aboard a United Launch Alliance #DeltaIV Heavy rocket for its journey to our closest star. Throughout its seven-year mission, our the spacecraft will swoop through the Sun\u2019s atmosphere 24 times, getting closer than any spacecraft has gone before. Details: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/<\/a>\u2026\/nasa-ula-launch-parker-solar-probe-o\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/<\/a>\u2026\/nasa-ula-launch-parker-solar-probe-o\u2026 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our #ParkerSolarProbe spacecraft lifted off at 3:31 a.m. EDT aboard a United Launch Alliance #DeltaIV Heavy rocket for its journey to our closest star. Throughout its seven-year mission, our the spacecraft will swoop through the Sun\u2019s atmosphere 24 times, getting closer than any spacecraft has gone before. Details: https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\u2026\/nasa-ula-launch-parker-solar-probe-o\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81668","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\/466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}