NASA Spacecraft Is About To Deliberately Hit An Asteroid "Head-On" At 15,000 Mph

CBS Detroit

September 26, 2022

NASA shifts into Earth defense mode tonight, with a mission that is part science and part science fiction.

A spacecraft will complete a 10-month flight through the solar system, and intentionally collide with a harmless asteroid. It's a test for a potential real threat far in the future.

Back in November, NASA launched Earth's first planetary defense mission, called DART – the first, unless you include Hollywood. In the 1998 sci-fi thriller "Armageddon," our planet's in big trouble, the bullseye for a Texas-sized asteroid. Earth's only defense? Bruce Willis.

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