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Spacecraft. Impact. Asteroid. What? You think\h
science fiction but this is real. I'm Justyna\h\h

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Surowiec and i help tell the story of the\h
DART mission. DART is the Double Asteroid\h\h

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Redirection Test. It is NASA's first planetary\h
defense test mission. We're sending a spacecraft\h\h

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to a double asteroid system. We're going to\h
hit the smaller asteroid with that spacecraft\h\h

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and see if we can nudge that asteroid in space.\h
Hitting the asteroid is going to prove out whether\h\h

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this technique is something that we could rely on\h
were there ever to be a hazard facing the planet.\h\h

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I'm a public affairs officer at the Johns\h
Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. What I do\h\h

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is tell the story of this very exciting mission\h
through press releases, through videos, through\h\h

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all sorts of different communications avenues.\h
As a kid I was always drawn to creative fields.\h\h

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At some point i got lost in stories and it just\h
became very easy to talk about these fantastic\h\h

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missions. It's something that impacts humanity\h
so it's very important to make sure that people\h\h

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understand. The DART mission is first and foremost\hthe first experiment of its kind. There is no\h\h

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immediate threat to Earth. We want to make sure\h
that we can go out there and prepare and be ready.\h\h

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It''s very easy to kind of think "Armageddon"\h
or "Deep Impact." So what we do is try to get\h\h

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the facts out and to make sure that people are\h
getting accurate information versus just hearing\h\h

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sensational headlines. So as you can see behind me\hthis is actually the DART spacecraft right here.\h\h

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The solar arrays will actually roll out to 28 feet\h
in length. It's amazing to be able to talk about\h\h

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it and share it with others. It's very cool just\h
seeing how the spacecraft takes shape and how our\h\h

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storytelling takes shape as well. "This is so\h
exciting, this is so cool. Have you heard about\h\h

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this mission? We're going to an asteroid. Oh and\h
we're going to hit it." It's just like the basis\h\h