NASA’s DART Mission Launches!

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Nov. 23, 2021, carrying NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Mission spacecraft. Liftoff was at 10:21 p.m. PST. Photo credit: NASA — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Nov. 23, 2021, carrying NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Mission spacecraft. Liftoff was at 10:21 p.m. PST. Photo credit: NASA

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has launched from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Launch time was 10:21 p.m. PST on Nov. 23 (1:21 a.m. Nov. 24). DART will soon be on its voyage to rendezvous with an asteroid.