{"id":7204,"date":"2014-04-04T00:52:50","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T00:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7204"},"modified":"2014-04-04T00:52:50","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T00:52:50","slug":"asteroid-redirect-missions-with-the-kerbal-space-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7204","title":{"rendered":"Asteroid Redirect Missions with the Kerbal Space Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/asteroids\/initiative\/\">Asteroid Initiative<\/a>\u00a0to redirected a small asteroid into the Earth-Moon system has not quite gotten off the ground yet, at least in terms of broad political support. However, \u00a0with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kerbalspaceprogram.com\/\">Kerbal Space Program<\/a>\u00a0you can now go retrieve an asteroid on your own:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/kerbal-space-program-launches-nasa-asteroid-redirect-mission-update-video-1566556\">&#8216;<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/kerbal-space-program-launches-nasa-asteroid-redirect-mission-update-video-1566556\">Kerbal Space Program&#8217; Launches NASA &#8216;Asteroid Redirect Mission&#8217; Update &#8211; IBT<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H9fvjKVuULQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s\u00a0Asteroid Initiative\u00a0to redirected a small asteroid into the Earth-Moon system has not quite gotten off the ground yet, at least in terms of broad political support. However, \u00a0with the\u00a0Kerbal Space Program\u00a0you can now go retrieve an asteroid on your own:\u00a0&#8216;Kerbal Space Program&#8217; Launches NASA &#8216;Asteroid Redirect Mission&#8217; Update &#8211; IBT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,15,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-in-space-infrastructure","category-simulators"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1Sc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4246,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4246","url_meta":{"origin":7204,"position":0},"title":"FISO: Summary of workshop on asteroid redirect mission","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest presentation to the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) study group is now posted in the FISO Working Group Presentations Archive. 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