Blast off for Nasa mission to strike space rock
A spacecraft has launched on a mission to test technology that could one day tip a dangerous asteroid off course.
Nasa's Dart mission wants to see how difficult it would be to stop a huge space rock from colliding with Earth
The spacecraft will crash into an object called Dimorphos to see how much its speed and path can be altered.
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