{"id":231415,"date":"2015-07-14T08:41:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasas-three-billion-mile-journey-to-pluto-reaches-historic-encounter"},"modified":"2015-07-14T08:41:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T12:41:00","slug":"nasas-three-billion-mile-journey-to-pluto-reaches-historic-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=231415","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#8217;s Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface &#8212; roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India \u2013 making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto. After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface &#8212; roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India \u2013 making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}