{"id":3837,"date":"2012-04-20T18:28:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T23:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2013-09-22T21:30:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T02:30:51","slug":"asteroid-takeout-a-one-billionaire-mission-to-bring-a-500-ton-asteroid-to-earth-by-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3837","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid takeout\u2014a one-billionaire mission to bring a 500-ton asteroid to Earth by 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Visiting (and eventually mining) asteroids is viewed by space development advocates as an imperative stepping stone to making our way out into the solar system. One group of President Obama&#8217;s advisors, the Augustine Commission, counseled that a manned asteroid mission might bring the highest payoff per dollar spent in terms of science and essential skills for space exploration. A study was also commissioned to check the feasibility of bringing a small asteroid\u2014on the order of 10,000kg\u2014back to the International Space Station. It reported no showstoppers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/news\/2012\/04\/asteroid-takeout---a-one-billionaire-mission-to-bring-a-500-ton-asteroid-to-high-earth-orbit-by-2025.ars\">Asteroid takeout\u2014a one-billionaire mission to bring a 500-ton asteroid to Earth by 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visiting (and eventually mining) asteroids is viewed by space development advocates as an imperative stepping stone to making our way out into the solar system. One group of President Obama&#8217;s advisors, the Augustine Commission, counseled that a manned asteroid mission &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3837\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[1197,512],"class_list":["post-3837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-asteroids","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5438,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions\/5438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}