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NASAs DART spacecraft is closing in on its appointment with Dimorphos, but the energetic encounter is just the very speartip of global efforts to keep life on Earth safe from asteroid impacts.

US space agency says goal is to prevent Earth from one day being destroyed by a cosmic collision.

US space agency says goal is to prevent Earth from one day being destroyed by a cosmic collision - Anadolu Agency

A NASA spacecraft is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. The spacecraft named Dart will zero in on the asteroid Monday, intent on slamming it

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 will zero in on the asteroid Monday, intent on slamming it head-on at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph). The impact should be just enough to nudge the asteroid into a slightly tighter orbit…

WASHINGTON: Bet the dinosaurs wish they’d thought of this. NASA on Monday will attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spaceship launched from California

The $325 million planetary defense test began with Darts launch last fall.

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's DART mission, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is humanity's first-ever attempt to purposefully move an asteroid. You can watch the intentional collision live.

NASAs DART mission relies not only on its spacecraft, but on a network of telescopes back on Earth.