Invest in technologies to clean up orbiting & threatening space junk

According to Space.com, on 10/19/00, "Some of the objects, baseball-sized and bigger, could threaten the lives of astronauts in a space shuttle or the ISS. As an example of the hazard, a tiny speck of paint from a satellite once dug a pit in a space shuttle window nearly a quarter-inch wide."

RELATED ARTICLESExplain
What should Obama do next?
Science, Technology and the Internet
Funding for NASA?
Invest in technologies to clean up orbiting & threatening space junk
Aggressive funding for Earth science programs for environmental study
Insure a strong robotic/satellite deep space exploration program
Support funding for diversion of threatening asteroids
Support the Constellation Program
Graph of this discussion
Enter the title of your article


Enter a short (max 500 characters) summation of your article
Enter the main body of your article
Lock
+Comments (0)
+Citations (0)
+About
Enter comment

Select article text to quote
welcome text

First name   Last name 

Email

Skip