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Looking Skyward: Latest NASA mission makes sci-fi stories real

CAI | By John Basile
Published October 4, 2022 at 10:40 AM EDT
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This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system.
NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben

In NASA's latest mission, known as DART, a spacecraft hit an asteroid. On purpose. CAI's John Basile talks with Regina Jorgenson of the Maria Mitchell Observatory on Nantucket about the implications of the successful effort.

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John Basile
John Basile is the local host of All Things Considered weekday afternoons and a reporter.
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