{"id":803288,"date":"2026-08-09T08:41:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=803288"},"modified":"2026-08-09T08:41:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:41:30","slug":"what-kind-of-problem-is-34000-pieces-of-space-junk-circling-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=803288","title":{"rendered":"What kind of problem is 34,000 pieces of space junk circling the Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>A derelict SpaceX rocket plowed into the moon Aug. 8, reigniting a debate about space junk. NPR&#8217;s Ayesha Rascoe talks to John Crassidis from the University at Buffalo about the issue.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/08\/09\/nx-s1-5922205\/what-kind-of-problem-is-34-000-pieces-of-space-junk-circling-the-earth?rand=771664\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A derelict SpaceX rocket plowed into the moon Aug. 8, reigniting a debate about space junk. NPR&#8217;s Ayesha Rascoe talks to John Crassidis from the University at Buffalo about the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":800048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/800048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}