Destroying spacecraft and killing astronauts. The scenario is dramatic and far from fiction.
Asteroids are no longer the only cosmic objects to threaten life on Earth.
Lift off.
Now, defunct rocket stages, fuel tanks and millions of nuts and bolts litter the Earth’s atmosphere like a huge, cosmic garbage dump.
Since the beginning of the space age in the late 1950’s, rockets have carried thousands of spaceships and satellites into orbit.