Space Junk Cleanup Needed

Wow! And I thought my house was dirty! There is a lot of debris floating in space above our heads and the amount is going to increase in the years ahead! This makes future launches at risk (not to mention, makes the area around our planet very unattractive to potential visitors...what would the Vulcans think?)

While there is currently a special organization called the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee, made up of space agencies from ten countries and the European Space Agency, they have so far focused on limiting future space junk. The concern is how do we clean what is already up there...not like we have a giant vacuum cleaner!

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Photo credit National Geographic Website