NASA to crash DART spacecraft into asteroid

Later today NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, will intentionally crash into a near-Earth asteroid in the name of planetary defense.

NASA is on a mission to keep the world safe. Later today NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, will intentionally crash into a near-Earth asteroid in the name of planetary defense. ThE question is, can we redirect an asteroid if we ever needed to? Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory expert Andy Rivkin joins FOX6 WakeUp to talk about this exciting mission.