NASA launches mission to crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try to change its motion in space
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A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid has successfully launched. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test lifted off at 10:21 p.m. PT on November 23. NASA will test its asteroid deflection technology in September 2022 to see how it impacts the motion of a near-Earth asteroid in space.
The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off at 10:21 p.m. PT (1:21 a.m. ET) on November 23 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Live coverage of the event aired on NASA TV and the agency's site. The Falcon 9's booster returned for a vertical landing on Earth.
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