{"id":26322,"date":"2026-02-17T00:55:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=26322"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:28:01","slug":"near-shoemaker-was-launched-in-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=26322","title":{"rendered":"NEAR-Shoemaker Was Launched in 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11833\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11833\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/NEAR.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"141\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEAR-Shoemaker<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>NEAR-Shoemaker was launched in 1996.<\/strong> Almost five years later, on February 12, 2001, it became the first spacecraft to land on a meteor. NEAR-Shoemaker landed on near-earth asteroid Eros and sent back data until February 28, 2001. The extreme cold on the asteroid probably prevented the return of more data. Older children can learn more at:<a href=\"http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/near\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0http:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/near\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEAR-Shoemaker was launched in 1996. Almost five years later, on February 12, 2001, it became the first spacecraft to land on a meteor. NEAR-Shoemaker landed on near-earth asteroid Eros and sent back data until February 28, 2001. The extreme cold on the asteroid probably prevented the return of more data. Older children can learn more <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=26322' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5302,5299,5316,5351,6439,5301],"class_list":["post-26322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-eros","tag-february-12","tag-february-17","tag-february-28","tag-meteor","tag-near-shoemaker","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26929,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26322\/revisions\/26929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}