How can space debris hazards be mitigated to not interfere with life on Earth?

 Our final unit of Frontiers focused on space, aka the final frontier. During this unit, we read Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and each person in our class presented a chapter of our choice. I chose to present a chapter called The Cosmos on the Table. In this chapter, Tyson talks about how the Big Bang created the naturally occurring elements and how the rest have been created in the depths of dying stars. We also took a trip down to the Adler Planetarium to learn more about our solar system and advances in space technology. 

Like in the prior Action Project, we had to choose a challenge in space to address. I decided to focus on orbital debris and how it affects our ability to travel into space and how it affects life on Earth. I based my research on the question 'How can space debris hazards be mitigated to not interfere with life on Earth?'

Overall, I enjoyed doing research on orbital debris. I wish I was able to include more about NASA's DART mission; I hope to continue to closely follow it. If DART is successful, it would be a huge success, in general, as a way of saying our technology is so strong we can alter the trajectory of asteroids! I also believe the Space Fence is a good investment to understand how much debris is in the atmosphere and how we can create better safety standards.