NASA will use its DART spacecraft to impact the faraway asteroid Dimorphos on Monday. The moonlet is nearly 7 million miles away from Earth and orbits Didymos.
Former NASA astronaut Mike Massimino reacts to NASA's first moon launch since Apollo 17 in 1972 on 'Your World.'NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test The Monday mission is humanity's first attempt to change the motion of an asteroid in space by intentionally crashing a spacecraft into it.
Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system. The imager has snapped thousands of pictures of stars, giving the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory team leading the mission for NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office the necessary data to support ongoing testing and rehearsals.
Managers are confident DART won’t smash into the larger Didymos by mistake because the spacecraft’s navigation is designed to distinguish between the two asteroids and target the smaller one.
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