For the second time over the past week the space station and its crew have been avoiding space junk from hitting the space station.

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For the second time over the past week the space station and its crew have been avoiding space junk from hitting the space station.

They are playing the real version of Asteroids up there. The first alert came last week when The Johnson Space center realized there may be a chunk pf space junk coming towards the space station. So the crew was ordered to go into the Russian Soyuz and remain there until it was safe to come out.

Saturday night once again the crew was told of more space trash headed their way. This one they named Kosmo 1275. ( Naming space junk, crazy!) The Johnson Space center says it can take up to thirty hours to move the space station if it became necessary, so they must closely monitor these kinds of events all the time.

Seems it is like a freeway up there high above the earth with all of this space junk floating around and causing havoc with the space station. How all this space trash got there no one seems to know, but they all continue to keep an eye out for it as they float around.

So the astronauts put on their ray guns and destroy the objects headed towards them, no that is left to Nasa but it does seem to hold a great comparison to this once famous arcade game. Who knew back in 1979 that this all would take shape and that their game was not as far out as we all thought it was back then.

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  • CHAN LEE PENG on Mar 24, 2009

    This is like exploring the space. Thanks for this great piece, Linda! :-0

  • Kirstyanne Ross on Mar 24, 2009

    A good article, I enjoyed reading it huni

  • Christine Ramsay on Mar 24, 2009

    You wouldn’t believe that in an area the size of space there could be so much junk floating around. A good article

  • papaleng on Mar 24, 2009

    nice article Linda and I like it a lot.

  • Kate Smedley on Mar 24, 2009

    I had read that floating junk in space was a problem, great article.

  • Morgana on Mar 24, 2009

    Space is interesting but it’s a dangerous place to be.

  • travelerscp on Mar 24, 2009

    Good article. Very interesting.

  • luv2write on Mar 24, 2009

    Enjoyed it.. inspite of so many experiments going on, space mystery is beyond ev.thing

  • C A Johnson on Mar 24, 2009

    I enjoyed reading your article, Linda. I think the pic compliments the article nicely. Great job!

  • Bozsi Rose on Mar 24, 2009

    I love the idea of Space Junk.

  • jo oliver on Mar 24, 2009

    Very interesting read. Thanks

  • Eunice Tan on Mar 24, 2009

    Truly an interesting piece

  • nutuba on Mar 25, 2009

    Great article Linda!

  • Kimberly Moore on Mar 25, 2009

    Mysterious and amazing space..Great article:)

  • Will Gray on Mar 25, 2009

    I heard about this last night. There was a time not too long ago when we would think this immpossible. Amazing stuff.

  • M J katz on Mar 25, 2009

    Naming space junk…Ha ha. All that junk up there is from all the rockets, satellites, and probes that we’ve sent up since the beginning of our Space Age: things that had to be jettisoned prior to re-entry into our atmosphere…things that ‘got away from us’ while building the space station…things that were broken off of satellites that were hit with meteors…etc., etc.
    And this is just off the top of my head! Lol.
    We’ve done such a good job of polluting the earth that it only stands to reason that now we’ll work on polluting someplace else.
    Just like the stars in the sky, there has to be a lot of junk up there if they’re handing out names!!!

  • CutestPrincess on Mar 25, 2009

    nice one… im so interested in this kind of topic…

  • Denise Kawaii on Mar 29, 2009

    Great article. This is certainly a problem that I don’t think we ever anticipated having!

  • Brian Daniel Stankich on May 20, 2009

    All the space junk was sent up into space by us humans, but the chances of collisions are minuscule. I’m sure they were just taking precautions.

    Interesting piece.

    Brian

  • Winter on Jul 28, 2009

    nicearticle

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