FALCON 9 DART NASA SPACE MISSION PATCH first foray into active planetary defense

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FALCON 9 DART NASA SPACE MISSION PATCH first foray into active planetary defense Known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), is NASA's first foray into active planetary defense. Planetary defense seeks to detect large asteroids that could potentially collide with Earth, evaluate the risk these rocks pose and, if need be, attempt to avert calamity. DART will test one technique for that last step by slamming into the smaller moon of an asteroid while humans watch closely to see how much the moon's orbital period shortens. You would just give this asteroid a small nudge, which would add up to a big change in its future position, and then the asteroid and the Earth wouldn't be on the collision course.
FALCON 9 DART NASA SPACE MISSION PATCH first foray into active planetary defense
FALCON 9 DART NASA SPACE MISSION PATCH first foray into active planetary defense
THIS IS A 4" PATCH AND IS IN MINT CONDITION
FULL COLOR -  EMBROIDERED  THE PATCH SHOWS THE FALCON 9 ROCKET AT VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE ON SPACE LAUNCH COMPLEX-4 READY TO LAUNCH WITH THE DART MISSION GRAPHICS SHOWING UPPER LEFT AND THE DART TEAM SYMBOL IN THE UPPER RIGHT CORNERS
The mission team hopes that DART will give scientists their first real data about how a kinetic impactor approach to planetary defense might work in the real world, not just in models.
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