DART impacts asteroid target in world first
Laurel MD (SPX) Sep 28, 2022
After 10 months flying in space, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world's first planetary defense technology demonstration, successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday - the agency's first attempt to move an asteroid in space. Mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, announced the successful impact at 7:14 p.m. EDT.
