NASA say planetary defense test was 'success' after striking asteroid
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NASA say planetary defense test was 'success' after striking asteroid
"Our first planetary defense test was a success," DART mission systems engineer Elena Adams says after a NASA spaceship struck an asteroid seven million miles away in order to deflect its orbit, succeeding in a historic test of humanity's ability to prevent a celestial object from devastating life on Earth.