• People in blue polo shirts standing in front of computer clap and raise their arms in celebration.
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    Members of the DART team celebrate on September 26, 2022, as images livestreamed from the spacecraft show it successfully impacted the asteroid Dimorphos, completing the world’s first planetary defense test mission. 

  • People in blue polo shirts standing in front of computer clap and raise their arms in celebration.

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