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Now that NASA has crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, do you feel safer?

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A television at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, captures the final images from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) just before it smashes into the asteroid Dimorphos yesterday. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)Photo: Getty Images

Yesterday and after a 7.5 million mile journey, NASA's DART spaceship crashed into an asteroid called Dimorphos, in a historic test of humanity's ability to redirect a planet killing asteroid from hitting the earth.

We won't know for a while if the the DART will in fact change the orbit of that asteroid which is the real test of if the experiment works.

But this was a small object about the size of a football field. Could we use the same tech to change the direction of a planet killer?

Do you feel safer now that NASA has successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid?

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