Posted on 11/30/2021 2:21:20 PM PST by BenLurkin
NASA abruptly called off a spacewalk shortly before it was set to begin Tuesday morning after receiving a notification that debris could threaten the astronauts outside the International Space Station.
The notice came just two weeks after Russia fired a missile that destroyed a dead satellite polluting low Earth orbit with more than 1,500 pieces of debris that forced the astronauts and cosmonauts to evacuate the space station and board their spacecraft in case they had to flee.
NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron had been scheduled to step outside the orbiting laboratory at about 7:10 a.m. Eastern time to replace an antenna system. But on Monday evening, NASA received notification of the debris. And in a statement early Tuesday, it said: “Due to the lack of opportunity to properly assess the risk it could pose to the astronauts, teams have decided to delay the spacewalk until more information is available. The space station schedule and operations are able to easily accommodate the delay of the spacewalk.”
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A Kessler Syndrome event would knock out cell phones and other important technologies!
Space waste management will be a big business. How to get in on the ground floor?
Something earlier today in the news about Russia blowing up one of their own, outdated satellites near the International Space Station. Using a new weapons system to do so.
Sounded like they were doing this to let the West know they can destroy their satellites also.
Maybe that is where the debris was from.
This UFO episode addresses this.
The notice came just two weeks after Russia fired a missile that destroyed a dead satellite polluting low Earth orbit with more than 1,500 pieces of debris that forced the astronauts and cosmonauts to evacuate the space station and board their spacecraft in case they had to flee.
The Russians recently stressed the station and nearly spun it out of control. It's long past time to cut them loose from joint projects, not least because it shouldn't have been done in the first place.
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