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On 27 September, 2:14 Romania local time, NASA's DART component of the international AIDA mission was confirmed to have intentionally collided with the smallest asteroid in the Didymos binary system. ESA will send its own mission to the two asteroids. The Hera mission, in which Romania is involved, will observe what happened after the impact.

The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) wishes "Happy Birthday" to the only Romanian cosmonaut, Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, one of the few people who made the dream of going to space come true.

On 26 September, a spacecraft will hit an asteroid in a controlled manner, in the first international effort to deviate an asteroid from its trajectory, to test humanity’s ability to protect itself from asteroids using this method. Romania is one of the actors contributing to the European component of the mission.

What will happen to humanity if an asteroid hits Earth again? Will we suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs or will we be able to avoid disaster? This year sees the first international effort to deflect an asteroid's trajectory, and Romania is one of the countries contributing to the European component of this mission.

What will happen to humanity if an asteroid hits Earth again? Will we suffer the same fate as the dinosaurs or will we be able to avoid disaster? This year sees the first international effort to deflect an asteroid's trajectory, and Romania is one of the countries contributing to the European component of this mission.