The crew of the international space station had a close call with a spent satellite engine in Earth orbit Thursday, forcing the crew to take shelter aboard its return capsule before the object passed harmlessly, NASA said.
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Well, as George Carlin would say, "That was not a near miss. It was a near hit."
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Until the next piece of space junk flies by...
Since the amount of junk up there keeps rising with time, the risk of an impact is going to rise too.
And then with each catastrophic impact .....
.... more junk.