{"id":59192,"date":"2026-05-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=3be6377e4560eae360904926a87bc195"},"modified":"2026-05-16T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:47:16","slug":"nasas-psyche-spacecraft-is-flying-to-a-metal-asteroid-so-why-did-it-just-visit-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/05\/16\/nasas-psyche-spacecraft-is-flying-to-a-metal-asteroid-so-why-did-it-just-visit-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Psyche spacecraft is flying to a metal asteroid. So, why did it just visit Mars?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                             NASA's Psyche flyby of Mars highlights how gravity assists help spacecraft gain speed, conserve fuel and travel across the solar system. \n                                                                                                            ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>                             NASA&#8217;s Psyche flyby of Mars highlights how gravity assists help spacecraft gain speed, conserve fuel and travel across the solar system.<br \/>\n                                                                                    &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":713,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2977,2796,1263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-amp-comet-missions","category-missions","category-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/713"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59200,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59192\/revisions\/59200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}