NASA: India's Satellite Destruction Threatens International Space Station

Last week, India intentionally destroyed one of its satellites with a missile. This was designed to show India's ascendancy to the status of being a "space power" in the world, at least according to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Clearly, not everyone agrees. 

NASA called it a "terrible, terrible thing, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said that this posed an "unacceptable" risk to the astronauts on board the International Space Station.

'A terrible, terrible thing': NASA said India's satellite destruction created so much space junk it now threatens the safety of the International Space Station Sinéad Baker, April 2, 2019:

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