NASA spacecraft to test asteroid defence concept
An artist's impression of the DART spacecraft about to hit the asteroid. Source: (supplied NASA)
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By Deborah Groarke
Presented by Margarita Vasileva
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NASA's mission to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid to test if it can be knocked off course is speeding ahead. The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off as part of a $330 million project to determine if Earth could be saved from rocks from space.
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