Late yesterday evening Wilson emerged from his Shelter after I assured him that Kosmos 1220 had burned up in the atmosphere.
Over a cup of hot chocolate, seeking to reassure him, I read him a quote from Heiner Klinkrad, head of the ESA’s Space Debris Office, who said: “In the 56 years of spaceflight, some 15,000 tonnes of man-made space objects have re-entered the atmosphere without causing a single human injury to date.”
'Exactly!' W replied, 'HUMAN injury — no-one cares about we anteaters! It's an outrage!'
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