{"id":130072,"date":"2021-11-05T13:22:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-is-launching-its-new-dart-spacecraft-to-deflect-asteroids"},"modified":"2021-11-05T13:22:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:22:19","slug":"nasa-is-launching-its-new-dart-spacecraft-to-deflect-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-is-launching-its-new-dart-spacecraft-to-deflect-asteroids","title":{"rendered":"NASA Is Launching Its New DART Spacecraft. To Deflect Asteroids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-is-launching-its-new-dart-spacecraft-to-deflect-asteroids.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a concept test for an advanced planetary defense solution.<\/p>\n<p>We are vastly unprepared for the event of an impending, potentially civilization-ending asteroid impact. Knowing this, NASA is developing planetary defense solutions to add to its arsenal of space technologies.<\/p>\n<p>One of these technologies, NASA\u2019s DART spacecraft, is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 10:20 Pacific time on November 23 a press statement reveals. \u2026 See more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a concept test for an advanced planetary defense solution. We are vastly unprepared for the event of an impending, potentially civilization-ending asteroid impact. Knowing this, NASA is developing planetary defense solutions to add to its arsenal of space technologies. One of these technologies, NASA\u2019s DART spacecraft, is scheduled to launch aboard a SpaceX Falcon [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}