QUICK FACTS
Milestone: DART rocket crashes into asteroid moonlet Dimorphos
Date: Sept. 26, 2022 at 7:14 p.m. EDT
Where: 11 million kilometers (6.8 million miles) from Earth
Who: NASA and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory scientists
On Sept. 26, 2022, at 7:14 p.m. EDT, NASA smashed a pint-sized spacecraft into an asteroid — and changed the course of both the space rock and planetary defense forever.
