NASA Prepares for Monday Asteroid Strike

The NASA logo at Kennedy Space Center ahead of the NASA/SpaceX launch of a commercial crew mission to the International Space Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on April 16, 2021. Joe Skipper/Reuters

NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away.

A spacecraft named DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) will zero in on the asteroid Monday, intent on slamming it head-on at 14,000 mph.