Too Much Space Junk Makes Astronauts Sleep in Escape Pods Photo
credit: NASA Creating trash seems to be a top skill among
humans, even in space. The massive amounts of space debris has
become increasingly a cause for concern, even prompting DARPA to
ask everyone for their ideas on how to decrease what's out there
orbiting around Earth. But now it's also an increasing concern
for the astronauts on the International Space Station, who
recently had to sleep in escape pods while a piece of
potentially dangerous debris floated past. And it won't be the
last time they have to do that. According to Daily Tech, "Due to
the space debris, the crew had to sleep in two Russian Soyuz
craft designed to be escape pods -- the actual trajectory of the
debris was unknown, causing even more alarm from mission
operators. It turned out, according to space officials, that the
debris didn't come close to the ISS after all, but the decision
to order the crew into the Soyuz escape craft was still a good
idea." The fact that it was cl