NASA Fired A Spacecraft Into An Asteroid And Redirected It — Now What?

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) shows that we could one day save Earth from an otherwise life-threatening rock hurtling towards the planet.

The launch of NASA’s DART spacecraft, en route to collide with an asteroid 6.8 million miles away.
NASA

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Staff writer at All That’s Interesting. austincharvey.com

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