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Space Junk Becoming More Of A Hazard For Astronauts

KETR | By John Mark Dempsey
Published June 21, 2021 at 5:10 AM CDT
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Dr. Kent Montgomery, head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Texas A&M-Commerce, contemplates news that debris is becoming more of a hazard for space ships and astronauts in orbit around the Earth, and will become more of a problem as time goes on.

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John Mark Dempsey
John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.
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