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
Science history: DART, humanity’s first-ever asteroid deflection mission, punches a space rock in the face — Sept. 26, 2022
