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NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test

DART packed and ready to move to SpaceX. DART team members stand outside Astrotech Space Operations processing facility with the shipment container holding the DART spacecraft. DART moved to SpaceX’s payload processing facility late last month. Credits: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman

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