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NASA mission to smash spacecraft into asteroid blasts off

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A NASA mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if its course can be altered blasts off from California. The SpaceX rocket carrying the experiment lifted off at 10:21 pm Pacific Time (0621 GMT Wednesday) from Vandenberg Space Force Base, NASA TV's livestream showed. IMAGES

Added on the 24/11/2021 08:01:51 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images

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