Favorable Weather Outlook Awaits NASA’s DART Launch Attempt

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The DART spacecraft is enclosed in the payload fairing at SpaceX's Vandenberg facility.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman
HOUSTON—A favorable weather forecast awaits the planned Nov. 24 Eastern time launch of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the first attempt at demonstrating a kinetic impact strategy for diverting an asteroid away from Earth. The launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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