Congratulations to Cristina Thomas and the rest of the NASA DART (Double Asteroid Redirect Test) team on their successful launch.

Here are a bunch of places where Cristina appeared in media reports over the past couple of weeks:

KNAU: NASA spacecraft will collide with asteroid in planetary defense test

The Atlantic: NASA Is Practicing Asteroid Deflection. You Know, Just in Case.

Scientific American: NASA’s DART Mission Could Help Cancel an Asteroid Apocalypse

space.com: NASA launches DART asteroid mission to destroy a spacecraft to (potentially) save planet Earth

CBS LA: NASA And SpaceX Rocket Bound For Asteroid Belt

KJZZ (NPR, Jan. 4, 2022): The DART spacecraft’s mission is to crash itself into an asteroid. Here’s why