[justa-hairyape]

See image 10 that Rannug pointed out. Thanks Rannug, I had not spent time viewing those images. Possible the missile was hit by the Dark Ray after launch. Made inert somehow and was set off course. And here I thought the Dark Rays I have a captured on a camera were for some stupid Global Cooling project. The Boys with the Secret Toys apparently are not stupid enough to fall for that Al Gore snake oil. At least that is good to know.

[TigersEye]

There is a more reasonable and common explanation for that dark line.

Moon shadow.