As a dangerous chunk of debris bore down on the International Space Station on Thursday, the crew took refuge in the Russian Soyuz lifeboat in case they had to flee to Earth.
NASA said a 5-inch piece of a spent rocket motor came within striking distance of the $100-billion station. If it had hit the station, damage could have been catastrophic.
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Not only have we shitted up our world but we've turned the space around it into a landfill. Makes me proud to be a human ...
And just an addendum, NASA and the other space agencies track 18,000 pieces of man-made crap orbiting the planet.
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