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9 Things to Know About NASA’s Armageddon Mission to Deflect an Asteroid

Launch of DART is scheduled for Wednesday, November 24.
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NASA’s DART mission to redirect a non-threatening asteroid is set to launch later this week. Here’s what you need to know about this historic deep-space test and how “kinetic impactors” could eventually protect our civilization from an asteroid apocalypse.

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