Watch These Scientists Remotely Operate a Space Garbage Robot

Watch These Scientists Remotely Operate a Space Garbage Robot

  • April 4, 2018
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Watch These Scientists Remotely Operate a Space Garbage Robot

Humans aren’t great at picking up their trash, a fact that is reinforced by the Great Pacific garbage patch and other massive dumps and landfills around the world. As it turns out, we are also taking our talent at producing rubbish into orbit with us. Since the advent of spaceflight in the 1950s, outer space has become congested with about 500,000 bits of spacecraft debris measuring larger than a marble, and 20,000 chunks larger than a softball, according to NASA.

Source: vice.com

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