Does space dust settle on orbiting space shuttles?
I’d like to add to BAM’s answer (who said that no, the dust doesn’t settle because in fact the shuttle is flying at tremendous speed). Space dust doesn’t “settle” on the shuttle, but it does HIT the shuttle and leave it covered with tiny pits. So far, we’ve been lucky and have not run into a larger piece of “space junk” that might do damage when we smack into it.
