NASA is performing a first-of-its-kind experiment, slamming a spacecraft into a small harmless asteroid millions of miles away. The mission is to determine if NASA can deflect and reroute an asteroid if one were actually on track to impact Earth. NASA insists no asteroids are currently heading this way, but they aim to be prepared just in case one does.
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