8. It takes a village to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid
Many people from a lot of different teams are involved in this $308 million mission. NASA partners from the U.S. includes NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Johnson Space Center, Langley Research Center, Glenn Research Center, Marshall Space Flight Center, Kennedy Space Center, Launch Services Program, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, SpaceX, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Auburn University, University of Colorado, Johns Hopkins University, Lowell Observatory, University of Maryland, New Mexico Tech with Magdalena Ridge Observatory, Northern Arizona University, and Planetary Science Institute. International partners include the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency.
