Free Astronomy Magazine November-December 2021

28 ASTRO PUBLISHING NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021 But how does the fifth episode end? With a couple of Moon Mo- biles, Foster and others go search- ing for the alien; they find it and are attacked. Due to a broken radio, Foster is left alone and runs into the alien. Both of them, run- ning out of oxygen and in trouble, help each other. When they are found by Moonbase personnel, the alien is killed due to a misunder- standing, a bit like what has always happened on Earth between differ- ent civilizations speaking different languages. An anti-racist message can be read between the lines, which is clearer in another scene, where Straker appoints a new (black) commander for Moonbase, believing Foster missing. The sixth episode, “Conflict”, fo- cuses on a very current theme to- day, that of space junk – that set of inactive satellites, stages of rockets, debris, scattered equipment and more, which revolve around the Earth, representing a danger to all astronautical activities. There are currently well over 7,000 satellites in Earth orbit, of which