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When NASA smashes a spacecraft into an asteroid Monday evening to test whether it's possible to deflect a future killer asteroid, several Arizona scientists will be watching as part of the project.

NASA's DART mission will give a chance to NASA scientists to plan how to protect Earth from potential impacts.

The event will be the agency's first full-scale demonstration of deflection technology that can protect the planet.

The galactic grand slam occurred at a harmless asteroid 7 million miles away, with the spacecraft named Dart plowing into the small space rock at 14,000 mph.

A NASA spacecraft is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. Here's why and how to watch

Images from the Italian Space Agency instrument are expected to show the DART missions impact crater and giant plume of debris.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A NASA spacecraft closed in on an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth. The galactic grand slam was set to occur at a harmless asteroid 7 million miles (9.6 million kilometers) away, with the

Tonight a cosmic mission that could one day save all mankind. that is not a hollywood intro. for the first time ever nasa will attempt to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid in order to knock it off its trajectory. it could one day prevent a planetary disaster if one of those guys comes this way. cnns kristin fisher joins me with more. its not going to blow it up like armageddon-style, it just wants to divert it like a pool ball, right? >> right. the goal is not to make this asteroid explode, the...

The DART test is an attempt to learn to divert space rocks that could endanger our planet