8) Space Is Scary
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When you’re in orbit you are a long way from home:
Sometimes we hear pings as tiny rocks hit our spaceship, and also the creaks and snaps of expanding metal as we go in and out of sunlight. The solar panels are full of tiny holes from the micro-meteorites. I watched a large meteorite burn up between me and Australia, and to think of that hypersonic dumb lump of rock randomly hurtling into us instead sent a shiver up my back.
Yeah, fair enough, that’s pretty frightening. Space is a mad old place isn’t it?
