Sunday, November 13, 2016

A fascinating take on the problem of orbital space junk

Anyone interested in human space flight knows that space junk is becoming a serious issue. After decades of space launches, a halo of debris now surrounds earth that consists of everything from dead satellites to paint chips. Space entrepreneur Tom Markusic has a novel answer to this problem: recycle it by capturing and towing it to Mars for use as raw materials for future missions to that planet. Now that's outside-of-the-box thinking at its best!

Read a full article on it here at Space.com

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