NASA prepares to launch a spacecraft to crash into a stadium-sized asteroid that poses no threat to Earth
DART is the world’s first full-scale planetary defence test, demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection technology.
It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the DART is a real proof-of-concept experiment, blasting off at 10:21 pm Pacific Time on Tuesday aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
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