NASA's DART Asteroid Defence Mission lifts off aboard SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
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NASA on Wednesday launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, intended to deliberately crash into an asteroid. The DART mission lifted off at 1.21 a.m. EST (11.51 a.m. India time), aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA said in a statement. The DART mission is the first to test technologies for preventing an impact of Earth by a hazardous asteroid.