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It is the first that humans have tried to change the of a space object. NASA spokesperson Glen Nagle said DART was the of many "planetary protection missions". He compared our of surviving an asteroid hit to the of the dinosaurs. He said: "We want to have a better than the dinosaurs had 65 million years ago." He added that in pre-, all the dinosaurs could do was to "look up and say, 'Oh asteroid'". Another spokesperson, Lori Glaze, said DART represented a "new for humankind". She said: "It's an era in which we have the capability to protect ourselves from something like a dangerous, hazardous asteroid ."

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