{"id":85966,"date":"2018-12-18T16:42:47","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T00:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/new-horizons-spacecraft-takes-the-inside-course-to-ultima-thule"},"modified":"2018-12-18T16:42:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T00:42:47","slug":"new-horizons-spacecraft-takes-the-inside-course-to-ultima-thule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/new-horizons-spacecraft-takes-the-inside-course-to-ultima-thule","title":{"rendered":"New Horizons spacecraft takes the inside course to Ultima Thule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-horizons-spacecraft-takes-the-inside-course-to-ultima-thule.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With no apparent hazards in its way, NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft has been given a \u201cgo\u201d to stay on its optimal path to Ultima Thule as it speeds closer to a Jan. 1 flyby of the Kuiper Belt object a billion miles beyond Pluto \u2013 the farthest planetary flyby in history.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-12-horizons-spacecraft-ultima-thule.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;12-horizons-spacecraft-ultima-thule.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With no apparent hazards in its way, NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft has been given a \u201cgo\u201d to stay on its optimal path to Ultima Thule as it speeds closer to a Jan. 1 flyby of the Kuiper Belt object a billion miles beyond Pluto \u2013 the farthest planetary flyby in history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85966","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=85966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}