In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
Space Junk
By Janet Evans
Thursday, Oct 16 2008, 11:56 AM
18-yr old rocket casing found in Australia
NASA reports that this 18-yr. old rocket casing has been recovered from Australia’s Outback
.".a Delta 2 launch vehicle used on 12 June 1990 to deliver the Indian INSAT-1D geosynchronous spacecraft from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.This solid rocket motor served as the launch vehicle’s third stage (U.S. Satellite Number 20645, International Designator 1990-051C), which carried the payload from a low altitude parking orbit into a geosynchronous transfer orbit of 135 km by 39,750 km with an inclination of 27.2 degrees. Reentry of the stage occurred a few months later.The object joins similar solid rocket motor casings found in Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Argentina during the past several years."
Continued on the Milwaukee Examiner HERE
Amazingly (or maybe not), there are literally tons of debris that falls from the sky all over the world.
Check it out HERE
Time to practice that old "duck and cover" from my childhood.
