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You can watch NASA's spacecraft slam into an asteroid if things go according to plan It is a big day for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Monday, September 26, as it is the day when its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is expected to smash into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos.

On Sept. 26 at 7:14 p.m. EDT (2314 GMT), NASA will intentionally crash a spacecraft into an asteroid. The Virtual Telescope Project will stream a ground-based view of the monumental event.

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test will knock an asteroid out of orbit, effectively sacrificing itself.

On Sept. 26, NASA will ram a spacecraft into an asteroid to test techniques that may eventually be needed to prevent a cataclysmic asteroid strike on Earth.

DART will crash into Dimorphos, a small asteroid orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos, to test NASA's ability to deflect space rocks from Earth.

NASA will use its DART spacecraft to impact the faraway asteroid Dimorphos on Monday. The moonlet is nearly 7 million miles away from Earth and orbits Didymos.

NASA is deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to prove the possibility of deflecting space rocks using objects launched from Earth.

The DART spacecraft is now close enough to image the asteroid system it plans to slam into as part of NASA’s planetary defense efforts.

On Monday, in what seems like a scene out of a science fiction movie, NASA will slam a spacecraft into a distant asteroid to see whether it can nudge its orbit — all in an effort to test a way to protect Earth from any potential future threats.

American Space Agency NASA has built a spacecraft which will intentionally crash into a small asteroid named Dimorphos.