{"id":709209,"date":"2021-11-24T03:30:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T07:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=709209"},"modified":"2021-11-24T03:30:15","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T07:30:15","slug":"nasas-dart-mission-is-punching-a-killer-asteroid-to-save-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=709209","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#039;s DART Mission Is Punching a Killer Asteroid to Save Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, launched on Wednesday, could be the first to alter an asteroid\u2019s path, a technique that may be used to defend the planet in the future.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/24\/science\/nasa-dart-mission-asteroid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">NASA&#8217;s DART Mission Is Punching a Killer Asteroid to Save Humanity<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: New York Times Space &amp; Cosmos&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, launched on Wednesday, could be the first to alter an asteroid\u2019s path, a technique that may be used to defend the planet in the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york-times-space-cosmos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709209","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=709209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}