NASA will deliberately crash a spacecraft into an asteroid next month - TweakTown

NASA is set to collide the high-speed DART spacecraft with a large asteroid in the space agency's very first planetary defense mission.

NASA is scheduled to collide a high-speed spacecraft with an asteroid in an attempt to change its orbit using a technique called a "kinetic impactor". The mission is called the Double Asteroid Redir… [+2015 chars]

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