NASA’s DART Spacecraft Slams Into Asteroid in Effort to Alter Its Orbit

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For the first time, NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to knock a celestial body off course. Here's what it looked like:

NASA’s DART spacecraft will intentionally collide with an asteroid on Monday, in an attempt to alter the space rock’s trajectory. The mission aims to test technology that could defend Earth against potential asteroid threats.

Photo illustration: NASA and Laura Kammermann

 

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did the spacecraft have collision insurance

So, did it knock it off course?

Wanna loose some precious time of yours ? Watch this !

Lol this is a film. Knowing the human race, we will hit one , which hits another and sends it to earth... Game over

“For the first time”

NASA at work.

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