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NASA attempts to divert asteroid in DART spacecraft test mission

NASA is hoping to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid nearly 7 million miles from earth.The DART spacecraft is about the size of a vending machine, and it will crash into the 500-foot asteroid Dimorphos at 14,000 miles an hour.
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