When you think about environmental waste, "Space Trash" is probably not the first phrase to come to mind. In this episode, Robert discuss why and how we got to this point in space.

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Resources:

An Academic Overview

About Sputnik 1

About Big Sky Theory

Video About Recent Space Junk Accident

About The Chinese Space Cleaner

Music by Medeski, Martin & Wood, Frank Ocean, Blue Wednesday, and Richard Strauss, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan