The Moon Is Just a Little Guy

When humans launch things into space, we basically make a big old mess. According to nassau, there are about 23 thousand bits of man made space junk orbiting earth. There is another heavenly body that we sent people and other stuff to, the moon. And junk accumulates in its orbit too. Right now, there's estimated to be a couple of dozen bits of debris orbiting it. But with several governmental and private entities interested in getting back to the moon in the near future, an estimate 50 missions in the next decade, the concern is that there's be just a big, dangerous mess up there in pretty short order. So right now the team is like cataloguing all the junk

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