NASA’s DART Planetary Defense Mission Nears Asteroid Target

Artist's concept of DART.
Credit: https://dart.jhuapl.edu/Press-Kit/index.php
HOUSTON—Using a cadre of advanced technologies, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is closing in on executing the world’s first-ever attempt at demonstrating whether a spacecraft can slam into an asteroid with enough force to prevent it from destructively colliding with the Earth...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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