The article, "Dodg-ingDebris," by Paul Marks in the July/ August issue of Aerospace America threwme a curve ball. With a title like that and two-page graphic of low-Earth orbit, I thought the article would be about the critical issue of orbital debris. I was wrong. The article was about the risk of aircraft hitting surviving orbital debris during flight. The article's introduction quotes safety engineers as saying, "a vigorous search for solutions is necessary, right now." Really? That hit me like writing an article about the risk of falling debris when your ocean liner is sinking.
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