NASA’s historic DART mission sees spacecraft smash into asteroid

Published September 26, 2022 11:25pm ET



NASA began its mission for the “Double Asteroid Redirection Test” on Monday, which saw the DART spacecraft intentionally crash into the Dimorphos asteroid. The mission was intended to serve as a test to see whether the space agency will be able to protect Earth from flying asteroids should the planet face an Armageddon-type scenario, according to Axios.

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