The intentional crash was seven years in the making, with NASA looking to see whether it could manually direct a space probe to collide with an asteroid and deflect its trajectory to prevent a potentially catastrophic impact with Earth.
One small step for man and one giant leap for the commercial space industry.
The White House announced the creation of the new Space Force military arm in December, with President Donald Trump calling space "the world's newest warfighting domain."
As part of Donald Trump’s plan to reassert American dominance in space, the US Senate approved a bill, which includes the creation of a Space Force, the first of its kind in the US Armed Forces in more than 70 years.
Amidst the controversy over President Donald Trump's bid for a 'Space Force', what's really behind the push to control the final frontier and what does it mean for the world?
US Vice President Mike Pence, in a Pentagon address, described the Space Force as "an idea whose time has come."
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