{"id":3925860,"date":"2026-05-09T08:03:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-close-brush-with-mars-will-reshape-nasas-psyche-journey-in-a-way-few-missions-attempt\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T08:03:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T13:03:38","slug":"a-close-brush-with-mars-will-reshape-nasas-psyche-journey-in-a-way-few-missions-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-close-brush-with-mars-will-reshape-nasas-psyche-journey-in-a-way-few-missions-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"A close brush with Mars will reshape NASA&#8217;s Psyche journey in a way few missions attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>NASA&#8217;s Psyche spacecraft will get a boost from Mars on Friday, May 15, passing just 2,800 miles (4,500 kilometers) from the planet&#8217;s surface at some 12,333 mph (19,848 kph). The spacecraft will harness the planet&#8217;s gravitational pull to speed up and adjust its trajectory toward the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, one of the more unusual objects in our solar system.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-mars-reshape-nasa-psyche-journey.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s Psyche spacecraft will get a boost from Mars on Friday, May 15, passing just 2,800 miles (4,500 kilometers) from the planet&#8217;s surface at some 12,333 mph (19,848 kph). The spacecraft will harness the planet&#8217;s gravitational pull to speed up and adjust its trajectory toward the metal-rich asteroid Psyche, one of the more unusual objects [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}