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NASA’s DART mission will deliberately crash into an asteroid’s moon in the name of planetary defense
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch. The DART mission, or NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will lift off at 10:20 p.m. PT on November 23 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. After launching in November, NASA will
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