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Breaking News: NASA launched a spacecraft that will crash into an asteroid, the biggest test yet of the agency’s role as planetary defender.

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NASA launched a spacecraft that will crash into an asteroid, the biggest test yet of the agency's role as planetary defender.

Wednesday, November 24, 2021 2:25 AM EST

A 1,200-pound, refrigerator-size spacecraft will trek around the sun to slam into a small asteroid named Dimorphos at 15,000 miles per hour next year.

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