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Sure, it's cool to blow stuff up in space. But if we're lucky, and the test actually work at nudging the asteroid off course, it'll become entirely possible that the tech could save the entire planet from a killer asteroid strike at some point in time. So it's blowing stuff up in space for a good cause.
DART's main team-up is between NASA, Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, and the European Space Agency, which together form theAs the ESA's website explains, NASA and JHU will be the brawn of the mission, with the refrigerator-sized craft and its
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