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Related: About this forumMind-Bending NASA Feat Serves As Inspiration For Attempting Important Work - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC
Rachel Maddow reports on an amazing NASA mission in which a very small space craft was used to move a an asteroid's relatively small moon almost 7 million miles away from Earth, and notes the value in its model of attempting and achieving something difficult and important. - Aired on 09/26/2022.
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Mind-Bending NASA Feat Serves As Inspiration For Attempting Important Work - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
Sep 2022
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They will be making observations to determine if the orbit has been altered at all.
Frasier Balzov
Sep 2022
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LOL! Well, I did watch what happened, both on the posted video(s) and on TV
Rhiannon12866
Sep 2022
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Frasier Balzov
(4,627 posts)1. They will be making observations to determine if the orbit has been altered at all.
What a perfect laboratory for this experiment!
Rhiannon12866
(245,006 posts)2. And this is certainly groundbreaking!
It's long past time we got some inspiring news!
Frasier Balzov
(4,627 posts)3. Groundbreaking. Pun intended?
Because that Dart spacecraft must have kicked up some gravel into an orbit of its own!
Rhiannon12866
(245,006 posts)4. LOL! Well, I did watch what happened, both on the posted video(s) and on TV
