Apollo Spaceships

Hopkirk | 14:14 Fri 19th Jul 2019 | ChatterBank

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Are there still lots of jettisoned parts of the Apollo rockets still floating around up there?

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Zacs-Master

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Apparently not, Just a few bits of Apollo 12. Half a million (yes, 500000) other bits tho. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html

14:19 Fri 19th Jul 2019

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Zacs-Master

Apparently not, Just a few bits of Apollo 12. Half a million (yes, 500000) other bits tho.
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html

Hopkirk

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Thanks for that, very interesting.

I love the way NASA manages to blame Russia and China in that piece.

Zacs-Master

Ha, yeah. If I could read Russian or Mandarin I could probably find one conversely blaming the US.

Old_Geezer

See, they need to put a cloud of metal eating bacteria in orbit. Plastic eating too probably. Earth could have rings far more useful that other planets, but they need to work out how to stop the cloud coming back down. It needs to gradually move away; like the moon does.

Zacs-Master

I've just worked out that the Earth has moved 2.24m (2 yards in old money) since I was born.

Quite a few ideas on how to clean the debris up:
https://www.euronews.com/2017/11/23/how-to-clean-up-space-junk

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