ROCKET INTO ASTEROID: NASA is taking the plot of a Hollywood movie and turning it into reality — sort of. - a podcast by RADIO.COM

NASA is taking the plot of a Hollywood movie and turning it into reality — sort of. It's going to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid's moon to try to change its trajectory. The goal of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test is to see if an asteroid could be redirected if it was heading for Earth. I pulled cuts of Bing Quock with the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences discussing how this will work.

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