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The 210 miles to the space station's orbit is less than the distance from San Fransisco to Los Angeles, but airliners can't take us there. Our rockets have inspired many people to be astronauts and go to the moon, and someday go further. "It's a pretty tough ride," says scientist Donald Thomas. "You can barely read a checklist because everything is shaking in front of you." Donald Thomas, a scientist who studies the properties of materials like metals, was trained to support medical work.

__Trash in space__

The idea seems crazy, trash in space. But this is no joke! Even small space stations release over 200 bags of trash a year! The idea seems convincing, to throw trash in space and then it burns up in our atmosphere. There is everything in space! even gloves lost from astronauts burn up in our atmosphere.