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A SpaceX rocket was set to blast off from California late Tuesday as NASA seeks to demonstrate a first-of-its-kind planetary defense system, designed to deflect an asteroid from a potential doomsday collision with Earth.
DART mission will test NASA's ability to alter asteroid's trajectory with kinetic force - crashing robot spacecraft into it at high speed and nudging space boulder just enough to keep our planet out of harm's way