News Stories relating to "space junk"
Friday, October 12, 2012
It's illegal to litter by throwing your trash out the car window, but it turns out that
astronauts do it all the time. In fact, they throw their DIRTY UNDERPANTS out the window (they actually pack them into a used Progress capsule to be incinerated in the atmosphere).
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
There's so much
trash out there in space that it's getting in the way of astronaut operations. The solution?
ZAP it! The US military currently tracks about 20,000 items of space junk in low-...
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