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LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth.
The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in a $330 million project with echoes of the Bruce Willis movie "Armageddon."
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NASA on Wednesday launched a spacecraft with one simple mission: Smash into an asteroid at 15,000 mph.
The mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, left Earth to test whether slamming a spacecraft into an asteroid can nudge it into a different trajectory.
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A first-of-its-kind asteroid deflection experiment lifted off overnight from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. SpaceX launched NASA???s DART mission on a Falcon 9 rocket 10:21 p.m.
Photographers setup cameras for tonights launch of NASA’s DART mission Tuesday. The DART launch will be on a SpaceX Falcon-9 at 10:20pm PST. from Vandenberg Space Force Base,CA. Nov 23,2021. (Photo by Gene Blevins/Contributing Photographer)
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But the true test for this asteroid deflection technology will come in September 2022, when the spacecraft reaches its destination, to see how it impacts the motion of a near-Earth asteroid in space.
The mission target is Dimorphos, a small moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid Didymos . This will be the agency’s first full-scale demonstration of this type of technology on behalf of planetary defense.
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Congratulations to @elonmusk and his Falcon 9 rockets for helping @NASA & @ESA send space probes around the solar s… https://t.co/yupkLqcFxt neiltyson (from New York City) Tue Nov 23 23:43:44 +0000 2021
All systems and weather are looking good for tonight's Falcon 9 launch of @NASA's DART into an asteroid-interceptin… https://t.co/2mOsLVbdL1 SpaceX (from Hawthorne, CA) Tue Nov 23 18:24:24 +0000 2021
Watch Falcon 9 launch @NASA's DART mission – humanity's first planetary defense test to redirect an asteroid… https://t.co/Q7ybUMMVmv SpaceX (from Hawthorne, CA) Wed Nov 24 06:05:22 +0000 2021
LIVE: A new @Roscosmos module launches to the @Space_Station. Watch the Prichal docking module & its uncrewed Progr… https://t.co/PZ1wBWV2SG NASA (from Pale Blue Dot) Wed Nov 24 12:45:35 +0000 2021
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