90. When some parts of the spaceship fall off, where do they go in space? (A K2S Question)

From The Space Library

They just float away and become space junk. There is too much of that already, and NASA cooperates with the Air Force space debris tracking organization in planning missions so that spaceships will not collide with the debris. Maybe in the future the spacecraft computers will be so sophisticated that they will contain tracking data on all space debris and will project flight paths out so far in time that collisions will be avoided routinely on board the spacecraft.

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Answer provided by Jon H. Brown

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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