{"id":1194,"date":"2025-07-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2025-07-10T15:55:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T15:55:50","slug":"nasas-asteroid-target-practice-may-not-have-been-the-success-we-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/10\/nasas-asteroid-target-practice-may-not-have-been-the-success-we-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA&#039;s asteroid target practice may not have been the success we thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/nasas-asteroid-target-practice-may-not-have-been-the-success_cu76.640.jpg\">Boulders flying in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p>When <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA<\/a><\/u> smacked an <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/17068\/if-a-scary-asteroid-will-actually-strike-earth-heres-how-youll-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asteroid<\/a><\/u> with a spacecraft the size of a vending machine in 2022, the mission was rather quickly declared <u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/20761\/it-worked-nasa-successfully-moved-a-stadium-sized-asteroid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a victory<\/a><\/u>. <\/p>\n<p><u><a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/space\/20245\/boom-nasa-just-slammed-into-an-asteroid-and-filmed-the-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DART<\/a><\/u>, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, sought to prove whether humans could one day nudge a killer \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boulders flying in the wrong direction. When NASA smacked an asteroid with a spacecraft the size of a vending machine in 2022, the mission was rather quickly declared a victory. DART, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, sought to prove whether humans could one day nudge a killer \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sumedhengineers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}