NASA DART mission crashes spacecraft into asteroid in test to defend Earth

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Asteroids, you have a problem...humans!!!

NASA has just successfully tested a new way to defend Earth from potentially dangerous asteroids... by crashing a spacecraft into a floating space rock.

The space agency flew its $325 million DART mission Monday in the Last Frontier, with a space probe deliberately colliding with an asteroid to send it flying in a different direction.

The mission was broadcast live around the world, there were cameras on the front of the probe when it crashed into the asteroid, and mission control went crazy when the probe managed to crash into it, redirecting the asteroid.

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NASA's DART probe - an acronym for Double Asteroid Redirection Test - is currently being tested to see how much a spacecraft can alter the trajectory of an asteroid just by crashing into this damn thing. Only humans could imagine that.

The futuristic planetary defense technology was tested on a harmless asteroid, Dimorphos, some 11,000,000 kilometers from Earth.

Meanwhile, at Mission Control, Bill Nye was watching in real time.