Nasa smashes asteroid

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Unlike the dinosaurs, we have a space program. There are many ways we could steer an asteroid off its path towards Earth. 

If a big asteroid is heading our way, how does NASA prepare for the oncoming disaster? 

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will attempt a daring feat: to briefly reach out its mechanical arm and grab a sample from an asteroid’s surface. Dante Lauretta, Heather Enos, and Ron Mink introduce you to NASA’s asteroid hunter and what this sample return mission means for us here ...  Show more

If an asteroid were hurling through space, making a beeline straight to Earth, how would humans prevent it from doing what it did to the dinosaurs? Would we bomb it? Would we shoot lasers at it like a scene from Hollywood's latest sci-fi flick? Well, the folks at NASA have design ...  Show more