{"id":130140,"date":"2021-11-06T18:23:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T01:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-wants-you-to-become-a-planetary-defender-with-the-dart-asteroid-mission"},"modified":"2021-11-06T18:23:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T01:23:52","slug":"nasa-wants-you-to-become-a-planetary-defender-with-the-dart-asteroid-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/nasa-wants-you-to-become-a-planetary-defender-with-the-dart-asteroid-mission","title":{"rendered":"NASA wants you to become a planetary defender with the DART asteroid mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-wants-you-to-become-a-planetary-defender-with-the-dart-asteroid-mission3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA is getting ready to launch a spacecraft to test an experimental method to deflect near-Earth objects, and you can participate in the mission by testing your own planetary defense know-how.<\/p>\n<p>The space agency\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is designed to test a \u201ckinetic impactor\u201d technique for deflecting any asteroid or comet that might otherwise impact Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude03 NASA is getting ready to launch a spacecraft to test an experimental method to deflect near-Earth objects, and you can participate in the mission by testing your own planetary defense know-how. The space agency\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is designed to test a \u201ckinetic impactor\u201d technique for deflecting any asteroid or comet [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130140","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}