{"id":28291,"date":"2016-07-26T14:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T21:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/nasas-weird-asteroid-redirect-mission-is-actually-making-progress"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:03:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:03:56","slug":"nasas-weird-asteroid-redirect-mission-is-actually-making-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/nasas-weird-asteroid-redirect-mission-is-actually-making-progress","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Weird Asteroid Redirect Mission Is Actually Making Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasas-weird-asteroid-redirect-mission-is-actually-making-progress.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other NASA officials have said they have plans to speak with Congressional staffers about ARM and assuage concerns the agency is wasting valuable time and resources on something impractical.<\/p>\n<p>A successful ARM mission would be the craziest thing NASA has ever done, but would also hit on pretty much every big agency objective. ARM would basically kill a dozen space birds with one space rock.<\/p>\n<p>Photos via Screenshot from NASA webcast., NASA.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/18785-nasa-s-weird-asteroid-redirect-mission-is-actually-making-good-progress\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/18785-nasa-s-weird-asteroid-...d-progress<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Other NASA officials have said they have plans to speak with Congressional staffers about ARM and assuage concerns the agency is wasting valuable time and resources on something impractical. A successful ARM mission would be the craziest thing NASA has ever done, but would also hit on pretty much every big agency objective. ARM would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28291","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61047,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28291\/revisions\/61047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}