NASA and SpaceX Will Crash a Satellite Directly Into an Asteroid Next Week

Hoping to prevent a repeat of what wiped out the dinosaurs, NASA and SpaceX are now planning on crashing a satellite directly into an asteroid.Currently scheduled for November 23, the two space agencies will be launching SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket as part of their Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which involves "intentionally [crashing] the DART spacecraft into an asteroid to see if that is an effective way to change its course, should an Earth-threatening asteroid be discovered in the fut...