Study Reveals that NASA Spacecraft Sent to Smash Into Asteroid Successfully Diverted Its Course, In Win for Future Missions to Nudge Space Rocks in Collision Course With Earth

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Survival of humanity may one day depend on that capability to change asteroids’ courses.

Out of the many apocalyptic scenarios for the world and its inhabitants, probably no one is so frightening – and in a way, inevitable – than the possibility of a collision of a wandering space rock with our planet.

It’s been the object of both science and fiction to imagine space missions to divert these civilization-killers from their collision courses.

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