{"id":85345,"date":"2018-12-01T03:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T11:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/the-space-party-continues-nasa-probe-arrives-at-asteroid-bennu-monday"},"modified":"2018-12-01T03:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T11:02:24","slug":"the-space-party-continues-nasa-probe-arrives-at-asteroid-bennu-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/the-space-party-continues-nasa-probe-arrives-at-asteroid-bennu-monday","title":{"rendered":"The Space Party Continues: NASA Probe Arrives at Asteroid Bennu Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-space-party-continues-nasa-probe-arrives-at-asteroid-bennu-monday2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope you\u2019re not all partied out after the InSight lander\u2019s successful touchdown on Mars this week, because there\u2019s another big spaceflight event just around the corner.<\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx probe will officially arrive at the near-Earth asteroid Bennu at about 12 p.m. EST (1700 GMT) on Monday (Dec. 3), ending a 27-month deep-space chase. NASA will mark the occasion with a special webcast event from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. EST (1645 to 1715 GMT), which you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html\">watch live here at <a href=\"http:\/\/Space.com\">Space.com<\/a><\/a>, courtesy of NASA TV.<\/p>\n<p>The space agency will also air an \u201carrival preview program\u201d at 11:15 a.m. EST (1615 GMT). You can catch that here at Space.com as well. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/20920-nasa-osiris-rex-asteroid-mission-photos.html\">OSIRIS-REx: NASA\u2019s Asteroid Sample-Return Mission in Pictures<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/42593-nasa-osiris-rex-asteroid-bennu-arrival-soon.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/42593-nasa-osiris-rex-asteroid-bennu-arrival-soon.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope you\u2019re not all partied out after the InSight lander\u2019s successful touchdown on Mars this week, because there\u2019s another big spaceflight event just around the corner. NASA\u2019s OSIRIS-REx probe will officially arrive at the near-Earth asteroid Bennu at about 12 p.m. EST (1700 GMT) on Monday (Dec. 3), ending a 27-month deep-space chase. NASA [\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-85345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85345","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=85345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}