{"id":25078,"date":"2016-04-27T12:46:33","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T19:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/ucf-gets-grant-to-plan-for-space-mining-on-nasa-mission"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:11:11","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:11:11","slug":"ucf-gets-grant-to-plan-for-space-mining-on-nasa-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/ucf-gets-grant-to-plan-for-space-mining-on-nasa-mission","title":{"rendered":"UCF gets grant to plan for space mining on NASA mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ucf-gets-grant-to-plan-for-space-mining-on-nasa-mission.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>UCF physics professor Dan Britt has been named to the New Horizons mission team as the spacecraft heads to the Kuiper Belt. He\u2019s also just landed a grant to help create fake asteroid material, which will help NASA and private companies prepare the technology needed to mine asteroids and eventually other planets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been a pretty good month,\u201d Britt said from Boulder, Colo., where he\u2019s working on another proposal for NASA. \u201cThis is a great time to be in this field.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Britt joins the team responsible for sending New Horizons to Pluto and which made Professor Named to NASA Mission, Lands Grant to Plan for Space Minings last year when it unveiled the first pictures of Pluto\u2019s surface. Mountain ranges and perhaps even oceans under its frozen surface have been recorded by the spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacedaily.com\/reports\/UCF_gets_grant_to_plan_for_space_mining_on_NASA_mission_999.html\">http:\/\/www.spacedaily.com\/reports\/UCF_gets_grant_to_plan_for...n_999.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCF physics professor Dan Britt has been named to the New Horizons mission team as the spacecraft heads to the Kuiper Belt. He\u2019s also just landed a grant to help create fake asteroid material, which will help NASA and private companies prepare the technology needed to mine asteroids and eventually other planets. \u201cIt\u2019s been a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25078","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=25078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50702,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25078\/revisions\/50702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}