NASA Intentionally Crashes DART Spacecraft Into Asteroid
NASA purposefully crashed a Double Asteroid Rendezvous Test (DART) spacecraft into a small asteroid on Monday night in an effort to understand how to save the Earth from extinction. The impact with the asteroid Dimorphos, which is around the size of the football stadium, occurred around seven million miles away from Earth. The DART spacecraft was launched nearly a year ago in November 2021 and traveled the distance. It reached a speed of around 14,000 miles per hour at the moment of impact. “The dinosaurs didn’t have a space program to help them, but we do,” Katherine Calvin, who is NASA’s chi...