NASA to hurl aircraft into space to smash asteroid at 23,000km an hour and save Earth - The Mirror

The £240m mission is expected to take place in September as new technology is being developed to hurl a half-tonne spacecraft into an asteroid called Dimorphos similar to the Netflix film Don't Look Up

NASA is getting ready to smash an asteroid with an aircraft at 23,000 kilometres per hour to prevent it from colliding with Earth. The £240million mission is expected to take place in September as … [+2606 chars]

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