as a planet. if it s successful, then if we had a real inbound killer asteroid, we could do that with it and it would miss us in its trajectory. so this mission has incredibly big goals. i mean, we re talking about potentially saving all of humanity and planet earth. now, nasa is quick to point out that this particular asteroid poses no danger to earth, nor does any other asteroid that we know of, though it s likely only a matter of time. nor does this d.a.r.t. mission have the ability to create the huge debris field we saw from the anti-satellite weapons test that the russians did last week in low earth orbit which jeopardized the international space station. the reason for that, it s going to take ten months for the d.a.r.t. spacecraft to reach this asteroid. it s very far away, but just in case something goes wrong, in case something doesn t work, or a potential killer asteroid does