{"id":8898,"date":"2012-12-24T14:05:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T20:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8898"},"modified":"2013-09-22T21:31:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T02:31:40","slug":"nasa-plans-to-lasso-asteroid-and-turn-it-into-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8898","title":{"rendered":"NASA plans to `lasso&#8217; asteroid and turn it into space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The craft would then turn on its thrusters, using an estimated 300kg of propellant, to stop the asteroid in its tracks and tow it into a gravitationally neutral spot.<\/p>\n<p>From here space explorers would have a stationary base from which to launch trips deeper into space.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/science\/NASA-plans-to-lasso-asteroid-and-turn-it-into-space-station\/articleshow\/17741852.cms\">NASA plans to `lasso&#8217; asteroid and turn it into space station &#8211; The Times of India<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>George Bailey lassos the moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The craft would then turn on its thrusters, using an estimated 300kg of propellant, to stop the asteroid in its tracks and tow it into a gravitationally neutral spot. From here space explorers would have a stationary base from which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8898\">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":[1197,922,513],"class_list":["post-8898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-asteroids","tag-big-ideas","tag-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898","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=8898"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11154,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions\/11154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}