{"id":636478,"date":"2019-11-05T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T08:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=636478"},"modified":"2019-11-05T04:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T08:10:00","slug":"apollo-astronaut-champions-hera-for-planetary-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=636478","title":{"rendered":"Apollo astronaut champions Hera for planetary defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Hera_scans_DART_s_impact_crater_card_full.jpg\" alt=\"Hera scans DART&#x2019;s impact crater\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having spent much of the 21st century developing planetary defence techniques, Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart is a strong supporter of ESA\u2019s proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/Hera\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Hera<\/a> mission. In general, when it comes to asteroid deflection, he says, two spacecraft are better than one.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Safety_Security\/Hera\/Apollo_astronaut_champions_Hera_for_planetary_defence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Apollo astronaut champions Hera for planetary defence<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having spent much of the 21st century developing planetary defence techniques, Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart is a strong supporter of ESA\u2019s proposed Hera mission. In general, when it comes to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":636479,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-636478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636478","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=636478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/636479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}