This is John Batch for conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman.

Stranded cosmonauts. Well, they call them tachinots in China.

Bob explains how this came about.

In the medieval days, it was a literary construction hoisted by his own pittard,

referring to blown up by a bomb you placed.

This is the Chinese dealing with hoisted by their own pittard, referring to blown up by a bomb you placed. This is the Chinese dealing with, hoisted by

their own pittard, in this case, their anti-satellite test many years ago, has damaged their

ability to return to Earth. What is to be done? Bob explains how they got into this fix.

Don't practice anti-satellite. Don't blow things up in

low Earth orbit would be a beginning. But here we go. Bob Zimmerman, much more of this later.

Well, China a few years ago did an anti-satellite test explosion in space where they destroyed one of their satellites.

The result was a gigantic amount of space junk in the orbits that space stations generally fly.

And guess who has been putting up and launching astronauts to a space station? China. They've got

their Tian Gong three space station in orbit, and they've been occupying it

continuously now for the last like three, four years. Well, they sent up a new crew last week,

which meant the old crew could come back and was supposed to come back earlier this week.

But guess what? They can't come back at the moment because China has revealed that a suspected impact from some space

debris has damaged the capsule and they're assessing the situation. They haven't given us any

specifics. We don't know where. We don't know how big. We don't know how bad the damage is.

But the crew at the moment is stranded. They don't want to use this capsule until they got a better

idea what's going on. They have supplies on the station. China has an assembly line of new capsules like

Russia, so they could send up an unmanned capsule to dock and dump the old one to give these guys

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