NASA mission to divert asteroid off course launches
By DW
24 November 2021 |
3:08 pm
NASA is launching a spacecraft probe that will smash into an asteroid to veer it off course. The mission is a test run, designed to see if the same approach could one day work on a rock on a collision course with Earth.
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