NASA space shuttle successfully crashed into asteroid

A NASA spaceship crashed an asteroid at high speed on Monday.

The galactic crash took place in an harmless 11.3 million miles away, with the space shuttle called “DART” plowing on the space rock at 22 thousand and 500 miles per hour, writes Euronews, broadcast Clankosova.tv.

Scientists expected the impact to create a crater, to cast currents of rock and dirt into space, and, most important, to change asteroid orbit.

Telescopes around the world and space aimed at the same point in the sky to catch the show. Although the impact was immediately apparent, the DART radio signal was suddenly interrupted. It will take up to several months to determine how much the asteroid's path has changed.

The $325 million mission was the first attempt to move an asteroid or any other natural object into space.