{"id":709212,"date":"2021-11-24T04:22:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T08:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=709212"},"modified":"2021-11-24T04:22:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T08:22:14","slug":"nasa-launches-spacecraft-to-test-asteroid-defense-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=709212","title":{"rendered":"NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/ap21328244738095_wide-bbceaccaff684d77524128765fcbf004d71890a7.jpg\" alt=\"The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, spacecraft onboard from Space Launch Complex 4E, at Vandenberg Space Force Base in Calif.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft&#8217;s mission is to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Bill Ingalls\/AP)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/npr-rss-pixel-19.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/11\/24\/1058786230\/nasa-launches-spacecraft-to-test-asteroid-defense-concept\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense concept<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The spacecraft&#8217;s mission is to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709212","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=709212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709212\/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=709212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}