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DART Mission Launched by SpaceX, NASA

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Tom Patton
Nov 24, 2021
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NASA’s DART mission, the first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, launched Wednesday at 1:21 a.m. EST on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

“We have not yet found any significant asteroid impact threat to Earth, but we …

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