Spacecraft crash into asteroid at 15K mph is not self-indulgent NASA experiment, writes TOM LEONARD - Daily Mail

TOM LEONARD: This suicide mission crashing a craft the size of a golf cart into an asteroid is not just a self-indulgent experiment dreamed up by NASA scientists with money to burn.

One day in late September a box-shaped spacecraft weighing approximately half a ton will slam into an asteroid seven million miles away from Earth at a speed of 15,000mph, in a bid to knock it into a… [+8838 chars]

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