NASA Tried To Knock an Asteroid Off Course—And Succeeded Wildly Beyond Expectations

TIME 2022-10-12

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The mission managers at NASA spent $330 million to send a refrigerator-sized spacecraft 7 million miles (11 million km) into space and punch an asteroid in the nose. And we should all be very glad they did, because today the Earth feels a little bit safer than it did yesterday.

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