Tuesday, November 16, 2021

A Russian missile creates enough space junk to pose risk to astronauts for years

The International Space Station shown in orbit in 2011. Astronauts aboard the station were ordered to briefly take shelter after Russia conducted an orbital test of an anti-satellite missile that spewed potentially dangerous debris into orbit.

The U.S. condemned the test, which blasted a cloud of debris into orbit, forcing astronauts aboard the ISS to spend two hours inside spacecraft that could return them to Earth in an emergency.

(Image credit: NASA/Getty Images)

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