In 2022, a NASA spacecraft slammed into a distant asteroid and knocked it into a new orbit — the first time we had ever deliberately changed the path of another world, a rehearsal for the day a real one comes for us - Space Daily
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In 2022, a NASA spacecraft slammed into a distant asteroid and knocked it into a new orbit — the first time we had ever deliberately changed the path of another world, a rehearsal for the day a real one comes for us - Space Daily

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When a refrigerator-sized spacecraft smashed into a distant asteroid, it proved we could alter the cosmos—and that we desperately need to know how.