Avenge the dinosaurs!!
Asteroids have been hitting the Earth for billions of years. Now, we begin to make it stop.
@NASA's planetary defense test mission – the #DARTMission – has lifted off and is now on a journey to impact an asteroid in the fall of 2022. Read more: go.nasa.gov/30R5x58
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More photos from last night's Falcon 9 launch of @NASA's double asteroid redirection test → flickr.com/spacex/
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Watch Falcon 9 launch @NASA’s DART mission – humanity’s first planetary defense test to redirect an asteroid spacex.com/launches nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1MY…
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About to launch asteroid defense test!
Watch Falcon 9 launch @NASA’s DART mission – humanity’s first planetary defense test to redirect an asteroid spacex.com/launches nitter.net/i/broadcasts/1MY…
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All systems and weather are looking good for tonight’s Falcon 9 launch of @NASA’s DART into an asteroid-intercepting interplanetary trajectory → spacex.com/launches
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Static fire test complete – targeting Tuesday, November 23 at 10:21 p.m. PT for Falcon 9’s launch of @NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test
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Talked about Starship with National Academies Space Studies Board
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Hear from @SpaceX CEO @elonmusk about SpaceX’s Starship program – starting at 6pm EDT.
Tune in live: ow.ly/GoM850GMIqT
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