After years of debate on how to dispose of rubbish from the international space station (ISS), NASA has come up with the funny answer in fact - open the back door and fling it out. However, this isn’t funny at all. Many of those pieces of space junk can kill astronauts, puncture satellites or at the very least scratch up expensive space shuttle windows.
NASA that has long drilled its astronauts and international associates in the merits of responsible waste management is to relax its rules and allow the station’s crew to throw away selected items of superfluous or broken equipment.
Hundreds of thousands of pieces of rubbish ring Earth, including old rockets, satellites, nuts, bolts and spent instruments. NASA’s decision to relax its rules comes as a Russian cosmonaut, Mikhail Tyurin, prepares to add a golf ball to the orbiting debris.
Scientists are trying to be more careful in the manufacture of spacecrafts or otherwise it will be next to impossible to make the space exploration successful with man searching other planets to live and inhabit in future. NASA’s new decision needs to be evaluated in the pretext of making the space exploration successful or else all the milestones reached till date will go in vain.
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Don’t you think Darnell, it will be too late before an alternative solution is developed to dump the junk in the space.
By the time an alternative solution will be developed it might be next to impossible to reach the outer space. I think NASA here is committing a big blunder.
Darnell, you are absolutely right we often criticize NASA and we tend to forget that what ever we dream today about space is only because of them. and because they have given us so much to dream which they of course are trying to make a reality, then it also becomes our duty to criticize if they are gone terribly wrong somewhere.
The kind of solution NASA is offering is more a problem and if we support them right now, we will be equally responsible for making the future space flights impossible for future generations because it will the next generation out their living with their families not us. They will always vilify if we try to barricade their right to the outer space.
Anyways, thanks for the appreciation Darnell and I look forward to your comments on what ever you read from ”space scan.”
And thanks for the review in the Blog Herald though I was not able to comment on that but thanks anyways.