The following NASA mission is classified as "suicidal"

To study how to avoid an asteroid colliding with Earth, NASA launched a DART probe.

Double Asteroid Redirection Test or Double Asteroid Redirection Test of NASA, is what took off on 11-24 this year in a Spacex Falcon 9 rocket.

This test is the first to be carried out with the mission of defending the Earth, and evaluating the possible intentional impacts on asteroids.

From the state of California, USA at the Vandenberg Space Force Base, DART, which means dart in English, was launched and was sent to demonstrate for the first time the technological capacity to attack a threatening asteroid.

Mission objective

They classify it as "suicidal" because the objective of the mission is to deliberately collide with an asteroid, and this would be in the name of planetary defense.

This will be done with the intention of testing if the asteroid changes its course at the time of impact, and thus have an effective solution in case one of them threatens the earth in the future.

Importance of the mission

This project represents a perfect test field, and according to NASA, an asteroid with more than 140 meters has not been known that has had any chance of impacting the Earth in 100 years.

However, NASA states that they do not want to be in a dangerous or uncomfortable situation if such an event is determined, so the Planetary Defense Officer, Lindley Johnson, notified that they had to test this type of capability.

For his part, the aerospace engineer from NASA's Goddad Space Flight Center, Brent Barbee, described the mission as a great milestone for our species, as it is the first time that technical testing has been done in this way.