The laser tracking system would work by giving space craft and satellites, which are able to be maneuvered, time to move out of the way of an incoming chunk of debris.

VOA: standard.2010.07.24

Democratic strategist and Louisiana resident James Carville: "I know this: every piece of information we have gotten to the size of this, or things that were going to work, none of it has turned out to be true."

VOA: standard.2010.05.31