{"id":23408,"date":"2016-03-11T07:46:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/put-an-anchor-in-it-how-astronauts-could-tackle-walking-on-asteroids"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:06:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:06:40","slug":"put-an-anchor-in-it-how-astronauts-could-tackle-walking-on-asteroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/put-an-anchor-in-it-how-astronauts-could-tackle-walking-on-asteroids","title":{"rendered":"Put an anchor in it: How astronauts could tackle walking on asteroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/put-an-anchor-in-it-how-astronauts-could-tackle-walking-on-asteroids2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the next decade NASA plans to catch and redirect an asteroid. The question is, how will astronauts lasso and move around on a space rock? One option is using a space anchor, according to a Missouri University of Science &amp; Technology design.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri S&amp; T students are working to design an anchoring device that will allow astronauts to clip in and move around on a wrangled asteroid. The device could be used during a human mission as part of NASA\u2019s Asteroid Redirect Mission or ARM. The ARM objective is to visit a large near-Earth asteroid, collect a sample and redirect it into orbit around the moon. The same techniques could be used for Martian missions in the 2030s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/content\/what-is-nasa-s-asteroid-redirect-mission\">according to NASA.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now back to the whole walking around on a moving asteroid objective.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/space\/go-for-launch\/os-missouri-s-t-students-anchor-astronauts-walk-on-asteroids-20160309-story.html\">http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/space\/go-for-launch\/os-m...story.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the next decade NASA plans to catch and redirect an asteroid. The question is, how will astronauts lasso and move around on a space rock? One option is using a space anchor, according to a Missouri University of Science &amp; Technology design. Missouri S&amp; T students are working to design an anchoring device that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23408","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68064,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23408\/revisions\/68064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}