The Backstory: Space Junk Falling From the Sky
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
We’ve been watching Artemis 2 and its $23 million dollar toilet journey to the dark side of the moon this week, but you have to ask a question. As we launch all these rockets, satellites, and space stations into the sky... what happens if they somehow come falling back to Earth? Well, it did happen almost 50 years ago, and folks around the globe spent a nervous few weeks... looking up.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, this week, a lot of us have been watching the sky as Artemis II blasted off with its |
| 0:05.3 | malfunctioning $23 million toilet, and on a more positive note, has now taken human beings farther |
| 0:12.2 | than anybody has ever traveled away from Earth, as far as we know. But speaking of watching |
| 0:18.6 | the sky, did you ever stop to think about where all the stuff we send into space goes? |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Patty Steele. Maybe more anxiety-inducing is this question. |
| 0:29.5 | What happens if what we send up comes back down on top of us? |
| 0:34.1 | That's next on the backstory. |
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| 1:12.7 | We're back with the backstory. We're back with the backstory. If space exploration is it at all interesting to you, |
| 1:18.4 | you've been watching the blast off of Artemis II at its 10-day trip around the dark side |
| 1:24.2 | of the moon. It's taken four human beings and their $23 million toilet |
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