About this episode

The episode discusses the increasing problem of space debris, highlighted by a story of an Australian farmer who found a piece of metal from space in his field.

Last week, Artemis II returned from the Moon. For a moment, it all felt clean. Simple. But space isn’t empty anymore. It’s crowded. It’s noisy. It’s filling up with the things we’ve left behind. And sometimes… those things come back. We return to a story we did on an Australian farmer who had an unexpected visitor from space—a charred piece of metal, dropped from low Earth orbit into his field. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Topics covered

• space debris
• Artemis II
• low Earth orbit
• Australian farmer
• space exploration
• environmental impact

Keywords

• space debris
• Artemis II
• low Earth orbit
• Australia
• environment
• space exploration
• metal piece
• farmer

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Moon, Australia, low Earth orbit

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