{"id":94748,"date":"2019-08-13T23:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T06:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/theres-a-place-at-the-bottom-of-the-pacific-ocean-where-hundreds-of-giant-spacecraft-go-to-die"},"modified":"2019-08-13T23:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T06:42:25","slug":"theres-a-place-at-the-bottom-of-the-pacific-ocean-where-hundreds-of-giant-spacecraft-go-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/theres-a-place-at-the-bottom-of-the-pacific-ocean-where-hundreds-of-giant-spacecraft-go-to-die","title":{"rendered":"There\u2019s a place at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean where hundreds of giant spacecraft go to die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/theres-a-place-at-the-bottom-of-the-pacific-ocean-where-hundreds-of-giant-spacecraft-go-to-die.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What happens to a spacecraft once it dies?<\/p>\n<p>When a spacecraft completes its mission or runs out of fuel, it\u2019s sent to what NASA calls a Spacecraft Cemetery. Three thousand miles off the Eastern coast of New Zealand and more than 2 miles deep, it\u2019s the one place farthest from any land mass on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The perfect spot to land giant chunks of spacecraft that are traveling more than 180 mph upon impact. NASA predicts the chance of a spacecraft hitting someone out here to be around 1 in 10,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What happens to a spacecraft once it dies? When a spacecraft completes its mission or runs out of fuel, it\u2019s sent to what NASA calls a Spacecraft Cemetery. Three thousand miles off the Eastern coast of New Zealand and more than 2 miles deep, it\u2019s the one place farthest from any land mass on Earth. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94748","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=94748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}