Well, this should be a fun show in the sky:
A Navy cruiser in the Pacific Ocean will try an unprecedented shoot-down of an out-of-control, school-bus-size U.S. spy satellite loaded with a toxic fuel as it begins its plunge to Earth, national security officials said yesterday.
President Bush made the decision because it was impossible to predict where a tank containing the fuel might land in an uncontrolled descent, officials said.
The Pentagon said it decided to use a modified, ship-fired anti-ballistic missile to make the attempt sometime after Feb. 20 to avoid creating debris that could threaten the space shuttle on its return from the international space station.
And the fact that this would be a nice convenient test of anti-missile technology is, of course, just a coincidence.
