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...

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