Astronaut Chris Hadfield (l) with Matthew Colless and Dr Roger Franzen from the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Image: D Paterson, ANU
Astronaut Chris Hadfield has inspected projects to clean up space junk, and space engineering projects, at the University's advanced Instrumentation and Technology Centre at Mount Stromlo. Commander Hadfield shot to fame when a film clip of him singing David Bowie's Space Oddity from the International Space Station went viral. Mount Stromlo is home to a project to track and clean up hundreds of thousands of pieces of debris floating in orbit, which pose significant dangers to space exploration and satellites. "One of the risks of living on a spaceship is impact with debris. Mitigation is the key,” Commander Hadfield said. "If we can do that with cleverness rather than through brute force and great expense, then that's a terrific way to do it. Commander Hadfield met astronomers working on the project to make space safer, as well as engineers working on projects such as the development of plasma thruster drives.
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