Crystallised urine and space debris set to cause ‘a lot of trouble’ for NASA, says expert

Published January 3, 2022

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The Daily Express quoted John Crassidis, SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. Capen Chair Professor in the UB Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, in a story on space debris. 

“I don’t think people are going to take it as seriously as they should until a human gets hurt in space,” said Crassidis. “It’s going to get to a point where in low earth orbit the probability of collision is going to be so big that putting something up there is going to be useless.”  

Read the story here. The article was carried by media outlets worldwide, including in the i, a British national morning paper published in London by the Daily Mail and General Trust.