Attack of the Cosmic Space Junk!
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[MUSIC] Look out the window of your pressurized house into the deadly vacuum of space, and this is the last thing you want to see. But that’s exactly what astronaut Tim Peake saw earlier this year: a chip in the window of the International Space Station. Thank science for quadruple-layered space glass. Whatever made that mark was only half the width of a human hair. Not dust, or an intercepted shooting star. It was an attack from Near-Earth Orbital Cosmic Debris!!!! AKA space junk [MUSIC] In the early days of the space race, the #1 priority was just getting stuff UP there, preferably before everyone else. In the 60 years since Sputnik, there’s been about 5,000 successful satellite launches, and more than 1300 are in operation today. But we put a few h...
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[MUSIC] Look out the window of your pressurized house into the deadly vacuum of space, and this is the last thing you want to see. But that’s exactly what astronaut Tim Peake saw earlier this year: a chip in the window of the International Space Station. Thank science for quadruple-layered space glass. Whatever made that mark was only half the width of a human hair. Not dust, or an intercepted shooting star. It was an attack from Near-Earth Orbital Cosmic Debris!!!! AKA space junk [MUSIC] In the early days of the space race, the #1 priority was just getting stuff UP there, preferably before everyone else. In the 60 years since Sputnik, there’s been about 5,000 successful satellite launches, and more than 1300 are in operation today. But we put a few h...
