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

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

NASA on Monday will attempt to deliberately smack a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, a historic milestone.

It's the size of a fridge, launched into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and currently hurtling towards a 160-metre-wide asteroid. In a few short day, the DART spacecraft will crash into Dimorphos.

If successful, test will demonstrate that if a killer asteroid ever heads our way, we'll stand a fighting chance

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.

In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. A spacecraft named Dart

NASAs DART mission to crash into the Dimorphos will not affect the safety of the Earth.

The European Space Agency has created a short animation to help the general public better understand the procedure and execution of the NASA DART.