NASA planetary defender Dr. Kelly Fast has a hard and fast rule: 'Find asteroids before they find us.' Working in NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office, Kelly is helping send the #DARTMission to test 'nudging' an asteroid in space. DART, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is a planetary defense-driven test of technologies for preventing an impact of Earth by a hazardous near-Earth object. DART will be the first demonstration of the kinetic impactor technique to change the motion of an asteroid in space. NOTE: the target asteroid is currently not a threat to Earth.
Get all the info on our #DARTMission: https://www.nasa.gov/dart
