NASA set to launch first planetary defense test against an asteroid

Next week, NASA is set to launch its first planetary defense test mission, called DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test). A spacecraft, launching on a Space X Falcon 9 rocket, will spend the next year traveling 6.8-million miles to reach the Didymos asteroid and its smaller partner, Dimorphous.

The spacecraft will deliberately strike Dimorphos at high speed in order to change the asteroid's motion in space. If it works, pushing a threatening asteroid just enough to miss Earth could be a way to avoid planetary disaster.

[brodiethegoaty]

Here before we get crushed by Wormwood lol