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NASA Chucks Garbage Out The Airlock
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AFTER years of debate on how to dispose of unwanted clutter from the International Space Station, NASA has come up with the answer: simply open the back door and fling it out.

The space agency that has long drilled its astronauts and international partners in the merits of responsible waste management is to relax its rules and allow the station's crew to jettison selected items of superfluous gear and broken equipment.

NASA has often expressed concern over the growing problem of celestial jumble. Earth is ringed by hundreds of thousands of junk items, including old rockets, satellites, motors, nuts, bolts and spent instruments from defunct spacecraft. Its decision to relax its rules comes as a Russian cosmonaut, Mikhail Tyurin, prepares to add one more object to the sea of orbital debris. In an advertising stunt for a golf club manufacturer, which has paid the Russian space agency millions of dollars, Tyurin will launch the world's longest golf shot from outside the space station on Wednesday.

NASA calculates that the ball will remain in orbit for three days before burning up in Earth's atmosphere, although Russian scientists claim that it could circle the planet for more than three years.

If it were to hit the space station — impossible, say experts — the force would be equivalent to that of a 20-tonne truck speeding at 180 km/h.

Previous oddities let go in space include a glove lost by the American astronaut Edward White in 1965 and a putty-knife that drifted away from the British astronaut Piers Sellers during a spacewalk in July.

Officials say certain objects on board the space station cannot be carried safely back to Earth.

"We are only going to be doing it in rare cases under very strict conditions," said Nicholas Johnson, the chief scientist for NASA's orbital debris program.

Most will ultimately burn up in the atmosphere. But until they do, they will pose an extra headache for NASA, which is already tracking 13,000 of the largest items to ensure that they do not hit the space station.

Because of their speed, even smaller items of debris, of which there are at least a million, can be lethal.

In 1983, a fleck of paint from an old spacecraft gouged a pit in the windscreen of the space shuttle Challenger, and in September this year Atlantis returned with a hole in a panel.

Stanford University anthropologist William Rathje noted that the first man-made object to leave our solar system was the Pioneer 11 spacecraft in 1974, now drifting for eternity in space. "How fitting that our first emissary to the stars is our trash," he said.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/nasa...3871272292.html


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Re: NASA Chucks Garbage Out The Airlock [Re: Diploid]
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we need to turn mars into a landfill


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Re: NASA Chucks Garbage Out The Airlock [Re: Diploid]
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noting wrong with pooin in space


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Re: NASA Chucks Garbage Out The Airlock [Re: barfightlard]
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Hey now, pooin in space might bring several things together here.  I've read numerous times that some believe aliens gave the planet it's psychoactive mushrooms.  Maybe aliens ate shrooms, pooped in space, and that dropped onto earth?  Imagine a big alien since the terd would have to be fairly large to survive reentry...

I should start a cult looking for the site of a large alien terd, heh.  Send me your money :smile:


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