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Space Archaeology (SPACE JUNK) with Alice Gorman

Ologies with Alie Ward

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Why Not to Go Near Space Jump?

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.

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