{"id":14844,"date":"2019-02-12T23:16:01","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T23:16:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2019-02-12T23:16:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T23:16:01","slug":"spacecraft-lands-on-an-asteroid-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/spacecraft-lands-on-an-asteroid-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Spacecraft Lands on an Asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-803\" title=\"Eros\" alt=\"Eros\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/8b09e__300px-WholeEros.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>February 12, 2001<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NEAR_Shoemaker\" target=\"_blank\">NEAR Shoemaker<\/a> spacecraft touches down in the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saddle_(landform)\" target=\"_blank\">saddle<\/a>&#8221; region of asteroid\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/433_Eros\" target=\"_blank\">433 Eros<\/a>, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asteroid\" target=\"_blank\">asteroid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/02\/12\/spacecraft-lands-on-an-asteroid\/\">Spacecraft Lands on an Asteroid<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/02\/12\/spacecraft-lands-on-an-asteroid\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 12, 2001 The\u00a0NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the &#8220;saddle&#8221; region of asteroid\u00a0433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. The post Spacecraft Lands on an Asteroid appeared first on This Day in Tech History. This Day in Tech History Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}