{"id":30977,"date":"2016-10-12T19:47:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T02:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/an-international-group-of-scientists-wants-you-to-join-asgardia-the-first-space-nation"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:09:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:09:53","slug":"an-international-group-of-scientists-wants-you-to-join-asgardia-the-first-space-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/an-international-group-of-scientists-wants-you-to-join-asgardia-the-first-space-nation","title":{"rendered":"An international group of scientists wants you to join Asgardia \u2014 the first space nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/an-international-group-of-scientists-wants-you-to-join-asgardia-the-first-space-nation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new country called Asgardia, named after Norse mythology\u2019s city in the skies, could be the first nation ever created in space. The hope is to embark on a mission to mine asteroids and defend Earth from dangerous meteorites, space debris, and other threats.<\/p>\n<p>That is, if everything goes according to an uncertain, open-ended, and audacious plan put forth by its founders.<\/p>\n<p>The group behind the <a href=\"http:\/\/asgardia.space\/\">Asgardia project<\/a> includes space experts based out of Canada, Romania, Russia, and the United States, and they announced their sovereign ambitions from a press conference in Paris on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-multinational-group-wants-you-to-join-asgardia-the-first-outer-space-nation-with-a-mission-to-defend-earth\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-multinational-group-wants-you-...fend-earth<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new country called Asgardia, named after Norse mythology\u2019s city in the skies, could be the first nation ever created in space. The hope is to embark on a mission to mine asteroids and defend Earth from dangerous meteorites, space debris, and other threats. That is, if everything goes according to an uncertain, open-ended, and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30977","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66024,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30977\/revisions\/66024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}