NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to test a plan that could one day save Earth from catastrophe
- Written by Svetla Ben-Itzhak, Assistant Professor of Space and International Relations, Air University
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test is the first planetary defense experiment ever attempted.NASA/JHUAPL/Steve GribbenOn Sept. 26, 2022, NASA plans to change an asteroid’s orbit.
The large binary asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos currently pose no threat to Earth. But by crashing a 1,340-pound (610-kilogram) probe into...