NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid, passing planetary defense test
LAUREL, Md. – NASA managed to crash a small spacecraft directly into an asteroid on Monday, a 14,000 mile per hour collision designed to test whether such technology could ever be deployed to protect Earth from a potentially catastrophic impact. The violent end of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has thrilled scientists and …
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