years of debate NASA has finally come up with what I should call inconsiderate answer to the serious problem of how to dump the trash in the outer space. NASA has a reputation for ingraining responsible waste management into its astronauts and partners in space exploration, and has often noted that celestial jumble is a growing concern.
Moreover, it all came in the light of the buildup of unwanted clutter from the International Space station that has sparked years of debate, so NASA has finally decided that the best approach is to jettison some of the waste into space. The reasoning behind the move is that the unneeded objects cannot be safely transported back to the planet’s surface.
This becomes a major concern, as NASA is currently tracking about 13,000 of the largest items in orbit so that the space station can steer around them. Items in orbit, even smaller ones, can reach incredible speeds. And to note that a fleck of paint from an old spacecraft pitted the windscreen of the shuttle Challenger in 1983, and Atlantis landed in September with a hole in one of its panels.
However, NASA is going to curb its concerns temporarily to clear out the space station. The reasoning behind the move is that the unneeded objects cannot be safely transported back to the planet’s surface.
Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin’s super Golf shot adds another bit of trash into the orbit and if it were to hit the space station in that time, though an impossibility, according to experts, it would do so with equal force to a 22 ton truck traveling at 111 miles per hour. That’s what alarms me about the NASA’s decision to fling the bits of trash out into the orbit. Further more many of those pieces of space junk can kill astronauts, puncture satellites or at the very least scratch up expensive space shuttle windows.
No one’s sure of the future of the space exploration, not even NASA I think. NASA’s new decision needs to be re-evaluate in the pretext of making the space exploration successful or else all the milestones reached till date will go in vain.
Via: Newstarget
