NASA's remake of "Armageddon" was pretty darned cool

It was like something out of the movie “Armageddon” but without the death, destruction or Bruce Willis. Last night, NASA, in the name of Planetary Defense, aimed a spacecraft at the moon of an asteroid and changed the asteroid’s orbit. The mission was called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART. It was right out of science fiction, but it was real and it was so cool.

Maybe Veep Kamala Harris, chair of the National Space Council, has been very busy after all. Just kidding. Harris had nothing to do with the galactically awesome space event last night. A huge team of real SCIENTISTS used real SCIENCE to send a spacecraft 6.6 million miles from Earth to fly past the asteroid Didymos at 14,000 miles per hour and impact the asteroid moon Dimorphos and alter its course. Read that sentence again and Praise the Good Lord that there are people out there that can do math and science at this level. Can you believe it? No oil drillers were harmed in the making of this successful science experiment.

I watched the last hour of the feed from NASA before the impact and those real scientists were cheering every milestone. It was incredible to watch people who worked for years on something realize their goals.