The dinosaurs didn’t have a space agency,
This is not an abstract risk that we’re up against, this is reality,
We don't really know very well the environment in which we are going to operate,
The more detail we can glean the better as it may be important for planning a future deflection mission should one be needed,
The consequence of this is that, instead of making a crater" on Dimorphos, DART may have "completely deformed" the asteroid
The absence of a second stage re-entry for this mission adequately mitigates the primary risk to the public in the event of a reoccurrence of the mishap experienced with the Crew-9 mission,