'A terrible, terrible thing': NASA said India's satellite destruction created so much space junk it now threatens the safety of the International Space Station
- NASA says India has threatened the International Space Station and the astronauts on board by shooting down a satellite with a missile.
- NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said the satellite shattered into small pieces of space junk that posed an "unacceptable" threat to astronauts and called it a "terrible, terrible thing."
- India said that it deliberately chose to destroy a satellite in low orbit with the goal of keeping the debris from harming the station or other satellites and that the debris would fall back to Earth and disintegrate.
- But Bridenstine said pieces were moving above the station and "that kind of activity is not compatible with the future of human spaceflight."
