2007-08-28 14:00:23 · 5 answers · asked by opaueyes 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I assume to the local dump or incinerator, like all trash.
2007-08-28 14:02:48 · answer #1 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems to me that there is souvenir value to anything that has been in orbit. Significant things go to museums, of course, and people who pay for experiments presumably get their equipment and samples back, but even so there ought to be other things that NASA could auction off to earn some extra dollars.
Besides what is brought back, there is a great deal of trash orbiting the earth in space. Most of it re-enters the atmosphere eventually, where it burns up. Very large pieces are tracked, and the oceans get most of them.
We are more careful than we used to be about discarding things in orbit.
2007-08-28 14:10:00 · answer #2 · answered by anobium625 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The waste and trash they bring back isn't anything memorable or special - no reason to keep it in a museum or anything. So it goes to a landfill or an incinerator, just like trash from ordinary people like you and me.
2007-08-28 14:03:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I prefer Minkus' question, "How do astronauts take dumps?"
2007-08-28 14:04:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they actually just send it into space
2007-08-28 14:07:42 · answer #5 · answered by Report Abuse 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋