In 2022, a NASA spacecraft slammed into a distant asteroid and knocked it into a new orbit — the first time we had ever deliberately changed the path of another world, a rehearsal for the day a real one comes for us
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In 2022, a NASA spacecraft deliberately crashed into a distant asteroid and shifted its orbit, marking the first time humans had intentionally altered the path of another celestial body. The event served as a rehearsal for planetary defense against future asteroid threats.
When a refrigerator-sized spacecraft smashed into a distant asteroid, it proved we could alter the cosmos—and that we desperately need to know how. The post In 2022, a NASA spacecraft slammed into a distant asteroid and knocked it into a new orbit — the first time we had ever deliberately changed the path of another world, a rehearsal for the day a real one comes for us appeared first on Space Daily .
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