The DART mission looks like something out of a science fiction movie.
NASA will test the idea of deflecting an asteroid by colliding with one.
The goal is for us to be prepared with this planetary defense capability if an asteroid is ever discovered to be on a collision course with Earth.
Luis Rodríguez, a software engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, explains this technology to us.
NASA spacecraft takes off that will impact an asteroid in space to deflect it