#asteroid doomsday

NASA to see if spacecraft can deflect deadly space rocks to crash into asteroids

On September 26 this year, NASA will purposefully crash a spacecraft into an asteroid – to see what happens next. Credit social media It’s the first step toward a practical solution if an asteroid is hurtling toward Earth — a mission to push potential doomsday asteroids onto less-threatening flight paths. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft recently took a first look at…