NASA has launched a spacecraft that will crash into an asteroid. The cost of the mission is $325m. The aim is to change the direction of the asteroid. If this is successful, it will prove that it might be possible to stop an asteroid hitting the Earth and destroying it in the future.
The mission is called DART. It launched from Vandenberg Base in California, USA. It is the first mission to protect the Earth from space rocks. NASA used a SpaceX rocket for the launch. DART has a long way to travel to complete its mission. If everything works well, it will hit the meteorite at the end of September 2022.
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