WATCH history being made: NASA crashes spacecraft against Asteroid Dimorphos
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NASA reaches a historic milestone by crashing the DART spacecraft into the Dimorphos. Watch the video.
In the early hours of September 27, NASA did something historic. The US space agency took a spacecraft packed with the latest tech, remotely operated it and took it 6.8 million miles away and then intentionally crashed it into an asteroid at the speed of 14400 miles per hour. The Double Asteroid redirection Test or the DART mission is one of the most ambitious projects of NASA because it does not directly serve the purpose of exploration of space but rather developing a defense mechanism to protect us from a planet killer asteroid strike. And today's mission was an important step in that direction. Read on to know the...