NASA’s DART mission and near-Earth asteroids + a new addition to the U.S. Space Force in 2022

-Lindley Johnson, planetary defense officer and program executive for the Planetary Defense Coordination Office at NASA, discusses the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) that will test a capability to deflect potentially dangerous asteroids from Earth in the future

-Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency at the Defense Department (DoD), discusses using the spiral development model for acquisition and joining the U.S. Space Force in 2022

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