{"id":495270,"date":"2026-06-12T01:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495270\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:55:15","slug":"soccer-meets-space-science-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/495270\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Meets Space Science &#8211; NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A soccer ball floats in microgravity in this March 2, 2026, picture from the International Space Station. The space station crew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g8zVn14wg38\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">tested soccer balls<\/a> to study how internal mass affects motion and stability in microgravity. The findings have improved understanding of how embedded technologies, including match-ball sensors, can influence performance during play.<\/p>\n<p>Through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers-and-facilities\/johnson\/how-nasa-science-and-artemis-are-shaping-the-2026-fifa-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">research aboard the International Space Station and technology developed for exploration<\/a>, NASA continues to\u00a0demonstrate\u00a0how discoveries made for space can\u00a0benefit\u00a0people on Earth\u2014including athletes and fans\u00a0participating\u00a0in the world\u2019s most popular sport.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: NASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A soccer ball floats in microgravity in this March 2, 2026, picture from the International Space Station. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,1658,60,1659,82,247],"class_list":["post-495270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-international-space-station-iss","tag-ireland","tag-iss-research","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}