DART BRIEFING (NASA), Sept 22, 2022, DC, 3:00 pm ET

NASA will hold a media briefing on the DART mission on September 22, 2022 at 3:00 pm ET.  It will air on NASA TV.

DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will impact the moon of an asteroid on September 26, 2022 as a test of a method for deflecting asteroids. NASA will provide coverage of the impact as well.

Briefing participants are:

• Katherine Calvin, Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor, NASA
• Lindley Johnson, Planetary Defense Officer, NASA
• Tom Statler, DART Program Scientist, NASA
• Edward Reynolds, DART Project Manager, Johns Hopkins APL
• Elena Adams, DART Mission Systems Engineer, Johns Hopkins APL