NASA has selected SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the first-ever mission to demonstrate the capability to deflect an asteroid by colliding a spacecraft with it at high speed – a technique known as a kinetic impactor.
from NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-launch-services-contract-for-asteroid-redirect-test-mission
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