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NASA may one day need to save Earth from an incoming asteroid. The plan: launching a spacecraft to nudge away space rocks.

Eleven local high school teachers will attend a moon rock and meteorite workshop hosted by NASA.

There is a lot of excitement building up regarding the crash and the space agency has decided to live stream the event to everyone It will be the first ever test of a way to protect the Earth from asteroids

This week should be interesting for space launches as SpaceX gets NASA's DART probe off the ground. Next year, DART will impact an asteroid satellite known as Dimorphos in an Earth defence test.

On Saturday, 11 local high school teachers got to examine samples of materials collected from the moon, Mars, and asteroids at a NASA-led workshop.

DART will attempt to deflect an asteroid from its orbit during a rendezvous in 2022

An illustration of the DART spacecraft firing its NEXT–C ion engine. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL NASA is sending a spacecraft to slam into a distant

NASA is gearing up for the launch of its first planetary defence test, which will involve a spacecraft intentionally crashing into an asteroid to impact its trajectory. The US agency has filled the spacecraft with fuel, performed some final tests, and is running rehearsals for the final mission. Named Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the mission is set to take off on November 23.

The DART mission is planned to take off on November 23 to hit Dimorphos, a moonlet asteroid. Currently, it doesn't pose a threat to Earth.

NASA aims to demonstrate the feasibility of using an interceptor to divert asteroids that could potentially collide with Earth