Astronauts Throw Trash Into Space

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday November 13, 2006 @12:13AM from the out-of-sight-out-of-our-gravity-well dept.

MattSparkes writes "The International Space Station is home to an increasing amount of unwanted goods, and NASA has just approved a policy where these could be thrown out of the door into space. 'Tools and other gear have accidentally floated away during spacewalks. But NASA has shied away from intentionally jettisoning gear off the ISS in the past because of the threat of space junk hitting the station or other spacecraft.' The loosening of the rules on this comes just as Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin is about to take a space walk where he will hit a golf ball from the ISS in a promotional stunt for a golf company."

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not more pollution! by SkunkPussy · 2006-11-13 00:57 · Score: -1, Troll

So just when the world may be starting to awaken to the decreasing viability of our environment/ecosystem/biosphere, we are now giving the greenlight to pollution of the surrounding space. And how much space rubbish must burn up in the outer atmosphere before that starts getting unbalanced?

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SURELY NOT!!!!!