04-05-2025
Chris Hadfield: I'll work with the King to tackle space junk
'If you sit quietly on the International Space Station, you can hear little bits of debris ricochet off the armour of the hull. Sometimes they hit the window and leave a ding.'
Having experienced for himself the threat posed by the growing clouds of metallic junk orbiting our planet, Chris Hadfield, the retired Canadian astronaut who achieved fame as the guitar-playing commander of the International Space Station (ISS), has an ally in the King in his quest to clear it up.
'He contacted me to work with his team called the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) to try and draft Astra Carta,' Hadfield said.
Taking inspiration from Magna Carta and Carta de Foresta, the 13th-century documents that enshrined the rule of law and granted public access
