NASA is ramming a spacecraft into an asteroid as part of a planetary defense test mission0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 3, 2021
The historic DART mission is set to launch late Tuesday.
The historic DART mission is set to launch late Tuesday.
NASA and the United States Space Force are banding together for the future of human spaceflight.
A group of planetary defense advocates is asking European governments to fund a mission to a near Earth asteroid, three years after a similar mission failed to win approval.
NASA is extremely interested in building a true astroid defense network that could spring into action as soon as a threat is detected, destroying or diverting a space rock before it can do any serious damage here on Earth.