Just put that stuff out at the curband it will be picked up.

Yet another flaming rocketing piece of space junk flashes downward into the Atlantic coast just off Brazil. This time it was a super secret Russian made satellite that fell to the earth in a blaze of malfunctionment. The classic case of crash and burn. Another “Oops moment.”

Never the less, we Earthlings are becoming accustomed to such events. American made satellites fall from space on a regular basis. Causing a low level media event. “Get your hard hat and don’t look up.” But anyway, creating a meteor shower of sparkling white-hot metal shards falling down through the stratospheric Earth’s object resisting atmosphere. And where it falls, no one really knows. Let alone knowing what real danger it might create.

Now this is where we need to put on our thinking cap instead of a hard hat. We should first put all Space Shuttles back into service. Which would require to recall all shuttles from their respective museums. But, it would be for a worthwhile cause.

The cause would be trash collection. Hitched behind each space shuttle would be a half dozen or so ‘Box Car’ size trailers. Trailers with expanding collection nets. Nets designed to catch loose satellites and so-called space particles. Pieces of junk that came detached from larger orbiting satellites. Antennas, telescopes, mechanical arms, nuts, bolts, canisters of microbiology, Styrofoam cups, beer cans, etc. Trash collecting vehicles drug through the upper atmosphere until all dumpsters are filled. Then brought back down to earth and returned to their respective owners.

All in all, a worthy service performed by the former space shuttle program and putting NASA workers back to work engaged in waste management. Surely you could sell some of that junk at garage sells or swap meets as “Space Souvenirs. What do you think?

Aah, the moon and the stars and oh yeah, space junk

So, a big consideration in launching an expensive satellite in to space is danger from…Space Junk.  You can rocket your expensive communication or weather satellite into space but how long will it stay up there?  Not for long if a spent rocket carcass crashes into it at 20k miles per hour.  Either knocking it out of orbit or completely obliterating it.  Turning your expensive satellite into space junk as well.  Worthless.  A giant waste of time and money.  Just adding more debris in space as more threats to future satellite launches or space exploration.

It’s bad enough down here on earth to see abandoned refrigerators along side the rural county roads.  Plus bags of home generated garbage and tossed away rubber tires.  All adding to the blight of our earthbound landscape.  In space or on the ground, we have a growing problem with our trash.  How to get rid of it?

It is obvious our so-called rocket scientists failed to plan for what to do with space junk after the fact.  Most likely a puzzlement beyond the calculations of space engineers.  Likewise our waste management scientists have the same problem.  How to dispose of waste junk.  On the ground and in the air.

Then there the problem with nuclear waste.  Where to put it.  Where to hide it.  We have a huge space and ground waste management problem.

Perhaps we should stop producing future junk until we develop ways of permanently ridding the environment of this junk problem.

Can the rocket scientists make rockets out of biodegradable materials?  Maybe making it from paper egg cartons?  Maybe making refrigerators, which can be recycled into new refrigerators?  How long will we continue to make such junk before we run out of space on the ground or up in space.  No space in space?  Yuck.  How will we observe the stars and moon on a romantic summer night?  “Oh look dear, remember the space lab America and the Russians built?  There it goes up there in about six pieces.  How cool.”