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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.