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Shuttle tragedy: the supposition of a crash against a space detritus is reinforcing

Houston, USA - A Nasa relation puts in guard against the risks of the "space garbage"

"We have catalogued about 9000 objects of land origin that turn over our head. There are fragments of the diameter from ten centimeters and over , for those smallest ones we are not able to characterize them. But also a fragment of coin dimensions, for the speed and for the shuttle hull weakness, can provoke fatal damages". This the declaration of colonel Andy Roake, the Usaf (United States Air Force)...

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AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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