Space junkyard: Scary sci-fi movies may just become a reality

There’s no escaping the waste that humans generate, even in space.

YOU’RE a space tourist – yippee! – one of the few privileged ones who can afford the US$200,000 (about RM 620,000) ticket to orbit Earth’s stratosphere. Just as you are enjoying a perfect view of the big blue marble from space, something slams into your spaceship and tears a huge hole in the hull and you are flung screaming into the void. Except, as they say, in space, no one can hear you scream ...