Email Short Wave at Or, follow us on Twitter at This episode was produced by Devan Schwartz with help from Thomas Lu, edited by Gisele Grayson and fact-checked by Abē Levine. Barber talks to Cristina Thomas about what it was like watching the success of the DART mission and what this means for science and planetary defense. Today on the show, Short Wave's scientist-in-residence Regina G. Put simply, scientists at NASA took a spacecraft and crashed it into an asteroid - hoping the little nudge, like bumper cars, would be enough to push the asteroid off course. "The DART mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is essentially our first test of a kinetic impact for planetary defense." says Cristina Thomas, assistant professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science at Northern Arizona University. the crew transfer and crew return functions for the Station is feasible. The DART mission shifted an asteroid's orbit through kinetic impact specifically, by successfully smashing a spacecraft into the smaller member of the binary. If an asteroid were hurling through space, making a beeline straight to Earth, how would humans prevent it from doing what it did to the dinosaurs? Would we bomb it? Would we shoot lasers at it like a scene from Hollywood's latest sci-fi flick? Well, the folks at NASA have designed and tested a theory. THEME : Space Launch Initiative ( SLI ) STATUS The FY2002 accomplishments of. NASA's first test mission for planetary defense, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to test and validate a method to protect Earth in case of an asteroid impact threat. 10, DART’s DRACO camera captured and returned this image of the stars in Messier 38, or the Starfish Cluster, which lies some 4,200 light years away. Email Short Wave at Or, follow us on Twitter at of DART, from behind the NEXT–C ion engine DescriptionWith Its Single Eye, NASAs DART Returns First Images From Space 1.jpg English: With Its Single Eye, NASAs DART Returns First Images From Space On Dec.
NASA Crashed a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid : Short Wave If an asteroid were hurling through space, making a beeline straight to Earth, how would humans prevent it from doing what it did to the dinosaurs? Would we bomb it? Would we shoot lasers at it like a scene from Hollywood's latest sci-fi flick? Well, the folks at NASA have designed and tested a theory.
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