{"id":76892,"date":"2018-03-13T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T18:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/nasa-building-hammer-spacecraft-to-save-earth-from-cataclysmic-asteroid-impact"},"modified":"2018-03-13T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T18:43:11","slug":"nasa-building-hammer-spacecraft-to-save-earth-from-cataclysmic-asteroid-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/nasa-building-hammer-spacecraft-to-save-earth-from-cataclysmic-asteroid-impact","title":{"rendered":"NASA building \u2018HAMMER\u2019 spacecraft to save Earth from cataclysmic asteroid impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-building-hammer-spacecraft-to-save-earth-from-cataclysmic-asteroid-impact.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA has a plan to deal with potential asteroid impacts that sounds like it\u2019s been taken straight from a science fiction film.<\/p>\n<p>The space agency is building a spacecraft named HAMMER \u2014 which stands for Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is to blow any harmful looking asteroids out of the sky before they have a chance to hit out planet.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/science\/nasa-building-hammer-spacecraft-save-12176978\">https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/science\/nasa-building-hammer-spacecraft-save-12176978<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has a plan to deal with potential asteroid impacts that sounds like it\u2019s been taken straight from a science fiction film. The space agency is building a spacecraft named HAMMER \u2014 which stands for Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response. The plan is to blow any harmful looking asteroids out of the sky [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,12,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroid-comet-impacts","category-existential-risks","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76892","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}