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Large crowds gather at various sites around the Lompoc Valley, and the flight could be seen, heard and felt in the Goleta area

Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched a NASA planetary-defense mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc.

SpaceX launched NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, DART, spacecraft on a first-of-its-kind mission designed to test a planetary defense technique.

NASA specialists will try to change the trajectory of an asteroid, which revolves around the Sun by "a fraction of a percent"

Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched a NASA planetary-defense mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc.

NASA is about to launch the first mission of its new planetary defense office. A spacecraft will attempt to knock a small asteroid off course by ramming into it.

Southland residents could get an impressive pre- holiday aerial light show tonight when Hawthorne-based SpaceX attempts to launch a NASA planetary-defense mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc along the California central coast.

DART satellite, Falcon rocket cleared to begin countdown toward Tuesday night liftoff

Sometimes, spacecraft must be destroyed anyway. And sometimes, it takes destroying a spacecraft to get the maximum science out of a mission.

DART will be NASAs first attempt to adjust an asteroids orbit. Heres how it works.