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Interview: NASA's plan to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid

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Could humanity deflect the path of a civilisation-destroying asteroid? That's what NASA's DART mission hopes to find out by crashing into an asteroid.Ahead of the impact on 26th September at 11:14pm UTC, we spoke with the mission's co-ordination team lead Nancy Chabot about the mission.Transcript Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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