Good morning, and welcome to Kid News! I'm Tori.

Today is Friday, August 26th, 2022, and we begin with an out-of-this-world reason to

mark your calendars for one month from today. NASA has picked September 26 as the day

it will intentionally slam a spacecraft into an asteroid at a speed of 15,000 miles an

hour. The agency is calling it Impact Day and wants the whole world watching.

The hope is that the crash can change the course of the asteroid and show that it's possible

to protect Earth from renegade space rocks. The proof will be in the pictures. 10 days

before Impact, the spacecraft is due to release a smaller capsule that will hover nearby

and hopefully act as the event photographer. NASA plans to livestream the collision as

it happens. But as fans of Kid News know, the agency has a reason for us to look skyward

even sooner. Monday morning, it's scheduled to launch its moon rocket, Artemis 1, for a 42-day

mission. The window opens at 8.33 a.m. Eastern.

They don't call it dinosaur valley-state park for nothing. It's located in Texas and

a dried from the drought riverbed that runs through the middle has just revealed the long-loss

footprints of a prehistoric giant. The acro-canthusaurus would have stood 15 feet tall and

weighed four tons and the tracks it left some 113 million years ago are reportedly so deep

and so detailed. Researchers say you can even see the toenails. The dino prints join others

already documented in the park and according to the New York Times, create a chain of about

150 dinosaur steps, all of which have hardened into limestone. These latest tracks won't be

visible for long, though. Park rangers say rain is in the forecast and they'll go back

to being a secret for future generations to find.

One of the biggest names in tennis will be sitting out next week's U.S. Open. No

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