00:01We're embarking on a new era of humankind.
00:10Didymos and Dimorphos make a great target.
00:15We needed an asteroid with a moon that you can see from ground-based telescopes around the world.
00:20We're doing this mission to prove that we can deflect an asteroid.
00:28Five, four, three, two, one.
00:36And liftoff of the Falcon 9 at dark on NASA's first planetary defense test to intentionally crash into an asteroid.
00:45Even if we do everything right, our sensors work well, our spacecraft is doing well, even then we might still
00:52miss.
00:53Five, four, three, two, one.
01:03For the first time ever, humanity has changed the orbit of a planetary object.
01:15NASA confirms that DART successfully changed the targeted asteroid's trajectory.
01:23Using the ground-based telescopes around the world to watch the system and see how it's affected by this impact
01:29event.
01:29This is a watershed moment for planetary defense.
01:35And a watershed moment for humanity.
01:39We're moving on.
01:41I'm quelcon investing.
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