Dead Satellite Crashes Into Pacific, Kills No One [space, news]

A dead 6-ton NASA satellite has fallen into the Pacific Ocean off the west coast, killing no one.

Officials are having trouble determining its exact location.

It is estimated that the odds of any one person being hit is 1 in 22 trillion.

This is the largest satellite to crash into the Earth's atmosphere since 1979, when both the 75-ton Skylab Space Station and the 10-ton Pegasus 2 satellite fell to Earth.

space briefings.

daddy, forget the pony, i want a space orbiter!

NASA is now selling old space orbiters to raise money; museums and other organizations are able to bid on the space memorabilia.

in other space news, a meteorite hit lorton, virginia last week.

algae + sewage = fuel!

NASA is doing something really cool; besides the whole space exploration thing, in light of the rising cost of energy, depleting resources, and climate change, they have been experimenting with alternate sources of energy and have been devising a method of growing algae in waste water for the purpose of making biofuel.

Read the full article here on SPACE.COM.