{"id":609501,"date":"2019-04-11T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=609501"},"modified":"2019-04-11T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T18:44:00","slug":"nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-asteroid-redirect-test-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=609501","title":{"rendered":"NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Asteroid Redirect Test Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has selected SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the first-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an asteroid by colliding a spacecraft with it at high speed \u2013 a technique known as a kinetic impactor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/press-release\/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-asteroid-redirect-test-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" >NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Asteroid Redirect Test Mission<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: NASA Breaking News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has selected SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the first-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}