NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos on Monday to change its path and test planetary defenses in the event an asteroid were on a collision course with Earth. Video is courtesy of NASA TV.
Video Transcript
- Yeah.
- 9--
- Oh, my goodness. 8--
- Yeah.
- --7--
- Ah.
- --6--
- Wow.
- --4, 3, 2, 1.
- Oh, my gosh! [GASPS]
- Woo!
- Oh, wow.
- Awaiting visual confirmation.
[APPLAUSE]
- Woo!
- All right!
- [? --draw ?] off the signal.
- We got it?
- We have got the signal.
- Waiting.
- Waiting.
- The signal.
- And we have impact!
- And we've done it! [LAUGHS]
- A triumph for humanity in the name of planetary defense.
- Woo! Fantastic. Oh, fantastic.
