Vandenberg, United States of America. 24 November, 2021. A SpaceX Falcon 9 booster rocket carrying the NASA planetary defense test mission, Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifts off from Space Launch Complex-4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base November 24, 2021 in Vandenberg, California. The DART spacecraft is designed to crash into an asteroid while traveling at a speed of 15,000 miles per hour to alter the path to prevent impact on Earth. Credit: Bill Ingalls/NASA/Alamy Live News

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