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'I Just Could Not Believe It'; Livermore Team Celebrates NASA's Historic Strike On Distant Asteroid
"The energy in the room was just incredible because we had all been anticipating this moment for many years," said Megan Bruck Syal.
September 27, 2022
This time is wasn't a movie. NASA has made history as it deliberately flew a spacecraft straight into an asteroid - all in an effort to save the planet from future destruction.
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The first-of-its-kind mission to knock a celestial object off-course started 10 months ago when NASA launched a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator from Vandenberg in California.
On Monday night, the space agency deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid the size of the Statue of Liberty - about 7 million miles from earth.
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