Wait, what?      1. Asteroid Deflection Program AIDA Gets A
Target After Recent Close Calls      Do you remember a simpler
time? As time before, say, a couple of weeks ago when we weren't
all living in constant mortal fear of being crushed by a giant
rock from outer space? Yeah, neither do we. Luckily, NASA and
the ESA are on the job of intercepting potentially killer
asteroids. The space agencies have partnered on a project known
as Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) which they
hope will be able to one day knock earthbound asteroids off
course, and they've selected a test candidate for the project.
To save the Earth -- or at least prove they could -- NASA and
ESA will collide a small spacecraft with the binary asteroid
Didymos in just... nine years? Don't they know we'll all have
been killed by giant space rocks by then? Come on, guys, a
little sense of urgency, huh?      Read More © 2014 The Mary Sue
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