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With DART asteroid mission, NASA makes its 1st interception foray into planetary defense

Via Space.com

* https://www.space.com/dart-first-nasa-planetary-defense-mission

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security

"At NASA Every Day is an Asteroid Day"

Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists, Preserving & Protecting the Home Planet Earth

GreenPolicy360: The original Mission Statement of the newly launched U.S. space program spoke of our planet and our responsibilities. GreenPolicy360's founder was fortunate, beginning in the 1960s, to listen to Congressman George E. Brown point to the NASA plan and explain how he saw Congress put into action the reality of a multi-year, coordinated, multi-agency program to achieve mission goals. Earth science, measuring and monitoring Earth's life-enabling systems was given highest priority. Landsat's program was set in motion as a decades long, first-ever digital scanning remote satellites data collecting study. An array of satellites began to launch, creating and combining the expanding resources of NASA, USGS, NOAA, and an array of educational and scientific institutions and aeronautics business.

The overall goal, Representative Brown would continue to explain in his Congressional Science, Space & Technology leadership roles over the decades, was to understand, preserve and protect our planet as we, humanity, develops the science to look beyond the Earth and study 'the heavens'.

Here's to Congressman Brown and the many other visionaries, thinkers and doers who have carried on the vision of preserving and protecting our home planet.

NASA-funded astronomer teams are always on the hunt for potentially hazardous near-Earth objects, asteroids and comets whose orbits periodically bring them within 30 million miles of Earth's orbit. At NASA, the Planetary Defense Coordination Office supports the search programs, while also planning and coordinating any response to possible asteroid impacts.

"Intruder Alert": Interested in Doing Some Observations that Could Save the World?

Would Be Interested in Looking Up and Logging On to Report?

• https://twitter.com/AsteroidWatch

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