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Podcast: Getting Unstuck – Cultivating Curiosity
Episode: Leading for Impact
Description: My pulse quickens whenever we leap into the unknown of space, be it with the 2015 New Horizons flyby of Pluto, or the launch of the new James Webb telescope on December 25, 2021. And so, I experienced that rush on September 26 when the D.A.R.T. spacecraft designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA was intentionally slammed into a tiny asteroid at some 14,000 miles per hour after traveling for more than 10 months and 7 million miles. "Intentionally slammed into a tiny asteroid" is the operative phrase here. Let's find out why that was done...