NASA’s Rp4.7 trillion spacecraft is ready to hit an asteroid to save the Earth

WASHINGTON – Final preparations are underway at United States of America (USA) as NASA prepares to launch a spacecraft destined to accidentally collide with an asteroid at high speed.

The accidental accident would be a test of NASA’s “planetary defense” mission.

Aiming to find out if it was possible to protect Earth from potentially dangerous space objects, NASA sent a spacecraft to try to change the asteroid’s path by crashing it into a speeding asteroid rock.

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Called the Dual Asteroid Diversion Test (DART), the $330 million mission is part of a large-scale “planetary defense” program.

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Although it has deflected Earth-threatening space rocks only virtually, now the real spacecraft will be sent some 6.8 million miles away from Earth to hit the asteroid.

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“Detecting potentially threatening space rocks is key to keeping our planet safe,” NASA Planetary Defense Officer Lindley Johnson told reporters at an online briefing Thursday.

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