Betsy Congdon

Bullseye 🎯 Mission control at #JHUAPL announced #DARTMission successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, 26 Sep 2022 at 7:14 p.m. EDT. This is @NASA's first attempt to move an asteroid in space. @NASASolarSystem @AsteroidWatch

"With many households now debating their holiday plans, a large number of people will face the prospect of yet another holiday season on their own." huffpost.com/entry/omicron-…

In April, @NASASun's Parker Solar Probe got closer to the Sun than any human-made probe before it, crossing a key boundary in the corona called the Alfvén Point. We asked Jorge Cham of @PHDcomics to create a cartoon breaking down what it took to get there. physics.aps.org/articles/v14/1…

“Our team had to adapt because working under the constraints of a pandemic while trying to build something in person is kind of hard. But the team worked together virtually, adapted with the times, and made a spacecraft!” - Lisa Wu, #DARTMission Mechanical Engineer, @JHUAPL

🚀 @NASA & @SpaceX are completing key milestones for the #DARTmission! Last week, the DART spacecraft was encapsulated inside the payload fairings that will protect it during launch atop a #Falcon9 and teams completed a successful Flight Readiness Review: go.nasa.gov/3FEWPGk

What if an asteroid were going to hit Earth? There are no known threats but asteroid expert Dr. Kelly Fast of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office says it’s important to find the asteroids before they find us. So our eyes are always on the skies: nasa.gov/planetarydefen…