What goes up toward blank can come crashing down again — in the plains of Texas and the deserts of Saudi Arabia , through barn roofs and into the Amazon . look into out these photographs of beat-up and decaying pieces of rocketry that are now only space rubble .
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Space junk around Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
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The 66-lb (30-kg) titanium pressurant tank from the second stage of a Delta 2, found near Seguin, Texas, January 1997
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The 550-lb (250-kg) main propelled tank of the second stage of a Delta 2 launch vehicle, landed near Georgetown, Texas, January 1997
The 155-lb (70-kg) titanium motor casing of the third stage of Delta 2, also known as a PAM-D (Payload Assist Module-Delta), landed in Saudi Arabia, January 2001
Pieces of the Chang’e II rocket, Jiangxi, China, October 2010
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Debris from Long March 3A, Tianlin, Guangxi, April 2011
The wreckage of a North Korean rocket, launched on 30 November 2024 is seen at the Second Fleet Command’s Naval Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea.
( Photo by Yeong - Wook / DongA Daily / Getty Images )
A massive chunk of Ariane 5, which landed in Mexico, January 2013
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Parts from the Chinese Long March-3B carrier rocket (which helped to launch the Chang’e 3 with the moon rover Jade Rabbit), went through the roof of a barn in Watang, China, December 2013
( viaEcns )
More debris from the Chinese Long March-3B carrier rocket, December 2013
( viaChinaNews )
A carbon-fiber panel from the Ariane 5 rocket launched in French Guyana last year, found by an old fisherman in a remote part of the Amazon, Salinopolis, Brazil, April 2014
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A piece of rocket in a flood, Altai region, Russia, June 2014
( viaEnglish Russia )
There is a growing amount of space waste around us
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