In other words, the team plans to ram a speeding spacecraft into an asteroid to knock it off its path. But DART would be more challenging than any previous asteroid mission, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Then, two major crises shook the DART team. In March 2020, Adams led the DART team as they sailed through the Integration Review. The DART mission officially ended in the fall of 2023 when the binary system traveled too close to the sun for telescopes to follow it.