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[Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you live from Laurel Maryland this is NASA's coverage of the double asteroid redirection test planned impact with asteroid dimorphos in a Galaxy where asteroids have humbled planets for billions of years now one planet strikes back for the first time in our planet's history NASA will test an asteroid deflection technique it's the first planetary defense method of its kind NASA's double asteroid redirection test will intentionally Ram itself into an asteroid and alter its orbits forever at the crossroads of Science Fiction and reality Dart is part of our plan to defend planet Earth against potential future impacts the test to protect the future of our planet takes place today welcome and thank you for joining us from Johns Hopkins Applied Physics laboratory home to the dart Mission operations center I'm your host Tahira Allen with NASA Communications and tonight we're following the real-time journey of the