NASA wants to defend Earth from asteroids — so it’s slamming a | Great Space
NASA wants to defend Earth from asteroids — so it’s slamming a spacecraft into one
NASA launched a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator, sending it on a crash course with an asteroid in 2022 — and it’s all on purpose. This intentional self-destruction will tell us if slamming a spacecraft into an asteroid is enough to save Earth in the future if a massive space rock is headed our way
