Why Not to Go Near Space Jump?

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There are still spacecraft in earth orbit that have nuclear fuel but as far as i know none of them are a massive risk. In 1978 the year before skylight reentered there was a very terrifying and and at the time largely hushed up incident where a russian cosmos spacecraft reentered the atmosphere it had nuclear fuel. It took a massive international cleanup effort to try and recover all those bits of fuel.

Gaze into the cosmos and wonder at broken satellites, retired rockets and shattered contraptions. Archaeologist Dr. Alice Gorman is a leading expert on orbital debris and chats about what’s up there, how it got there, and how to get it down. Strap in to hear about everything from Sputnik to sports cars, flaming garbage bonking us, alien clutter, collision potential, the most adorable space rubbish, cosmic burials and how one does this type of archeology without boarding a rocket. Also: steaming hot cruise ship gossip.

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