NASA's New Rover for Moon and Mars: Farther, Faster, More Autonomous

In September 2022, NASA flew a spacecraft 6.8 million miles from Earth and crashed it into an asteroid on purpose. The asteroid moved. Humanity had just changed the motion of a celestial object for the first time in history.The mission was called DART. Double Asteroid Redirection Test. It launched in November 2021 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 and spent 10 months cruising through deep space toward a binary asteroid system called Didymos, a mountain-sized rock 780 meters wide, orbited by a small moonlet n