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NASA's asteroid target practice may not have been the success we thought

Boulders flying in the wrong direction. When NASA smacked an asteroid with a spacecraft the size of a vending machine in 2022, the mission was rather quickly declared a victory. DART, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, sought to prove whether humans could one day nudge a killer …