Space debris made news on March twelfth when a part of an old rocket motor about ten centimeters in size threatened the International Space Station.

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On March twenty-second, NASA again ordered the astronauts on the linked space station and shuttle Discovery to move out of the way of another piece of debris from a rocket.

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The changes were needed for the shuttle to leave the station before the arrival of a Russian Soyuz rocket, which is set to launch on March 26.

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SpaceX from Southern California, successfully launched and recovered the first private supply rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) in May of this year.

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Besides containing living quarters, it will carry the booster rocket needed to push the station back into place if it starts to fall out of orbit.

ECONOMIST: Rocket science

So a few years and a billion pounds or so later, the great architect delivers his monumental vision - a cloud-tickling skyscraper, a giant gleaming obelisk that emerges from London Bridge train station like a rocket about to take off.

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