{"id":89493,"date":"2019-04-13T10:03:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T17:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/spacex-will-launch-nasas-mission-to-crash-spacecraft-into-an-asteroid"},"modified":"2019-04-13T10:03:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T17:03:15","slug":"spacex-will-launch-nasas-mission-to-crash-spacecraft-into-an-asteroid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/spacex-will-launch-nasas-mission-to-crash-spacecraft-into-an-asteroid","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX will launch NASA\u2019s mission to crash spacecraft into an asteroid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-will-launch-nasas-mission-to-crash-spacecraft-into-an-asteroid.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will launch NASA\u2019s $69 million mission to crash a spacecraft into an ASTEROID in 2021 to test methods that could save Earth from deadly impacts\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The groundbreaking mission will be the first demonstrated attempt to deflect an asteroid by purposely crashing an object into it at high speed.<\/p>\n<p>After launching from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/california\/index.html\" id=\"mol-04ca2ac0-5d6c-11e9-b61b-0bd9fee3f2d3\">California<\/a>\u2019s Vandenberg Air Force base atop a Falcon 9 rocket in 2021, the DART craft is expected to reach the object Didymos in October 2022, when it\u2019s 11 million kilometers (6.8 million miles) from Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Scroll down for video.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-6917225\/SpaceX-launch-NASAs-69-million-mission-crash-spacecraft-ASTEROID-2021.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX will launch NASA\u2019s $69 million mission to crash a spacecraft into an ASTEROID in 2021 to test methods that could save Earth from deadly impacts\u2026 The groundbreaking mission will be the first demonstrated attempt to deflect an asteroid by purposely crashing an object into it at high speed. After launching from California\u2019s Vandenberg Air [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89493","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}