Space kamikaze: why NASA is trying to knock an asteroid off course

NASA will try to knock the asteroid out of orbit, the BBC reports. On the morning of November 24, the DART drone, the first space “kamikaze” in history, launched from a military spaceport in California. The only task of the $325 million apparatus is to collide at full speed with an asteroid that is significantly...

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