
Why is NASA crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid?
NASA is launching a spacecraft that will deliberately crash into a near-earth asteroid, even though it does not pose a threat to earth. With the DART -- double asteroid redirection test -- NASA hopes to change an asteroid's direction to avoid potential collisions with earth in the future. CNN's Michael Holmes reports.
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