What Goes Up, Must Come Down: Here’s How We Crash Spacecraft Safely
Returning a spacecraft back to Earth can be a dire situation. How do we make sure they won't smash into cities? The Threat to Space Travel That No One's Talking About - https://youtu.be/Wd95PxiH...
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Like humans, spacecraft also go to a cemetery when they die, only this one isn’t in a memorial park. It’s here, this super remote spot in the Pacific Ocean that’s actually known as the spacecraft cemetery. It’s the farthest point on the globe from any human civilization, which means it’s the safest place to have hot metal falling from the sky. Humans have purposefully crashed hundred of spaceships at this spot. Which is super cool, and kind of sad. The old adage of “what goes up must come down” applies to things in space, too. Granted, not all of them. A spacecraft launched with enough velocity on the right trajectory won’t come back to Earth, but things in Earth orbit will. Like China’s prototype space station, Tiangong-1, that’s...
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Like humans, spacecraft also go to a cemetery when they die, only this one isn’t in a memorial park. It’s here, this super remote spot in the Pacific Ocean that’s actually known as the spacecraft cemetery. It’s the farthest point on the globe from any human civilization, which means it’s the safest place to have hot metal falling from the sky. Humans have purposefully crashed hundred of spaceships at this spot. Which is super cool, and kind of sad. The old adage of “what goes up must come down” applies to things in space, too. Granted, not all of them. A spacecraft launched with enough velocity on the right trajectory won’t come back to Earth, but things in Earth orbit will. Like China’s prototype space station, Tiangong-1, that’s...
