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Space Station Turning Into a Trash Heap

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the waste-management dept.

quintin3265 writes "Apparently, the International Space Station is becoming overloaded with junk, stored among other places in a now unused airlock. Since shuttles aren't visiting the station, the station's occupants can't return broken machines to Earth. Furthermore, the only way they can dispose of trash and human waste is by loading these items in Russian cargo ships that burn up in the atmosphere."

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  1. Is the UN in charge? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Cause this sounds like their style.

  2. They didn't think this through, obviously. by Anton+Anatopopov · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    NASA takes some $7trillion a year, and they cannot even work out that if you don't take out the trash, it starts to pile up? It's hardly rocket science!