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Sorting Through Space Debris Orbiting The Earth

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“Simultaneously inspiring and terrifying.”  That’s how University of Colorado Boulder professor Marcus Holzinger describes the traffic, and the trash, in space right now.  He testified this month about the danger this poses and possible solutions at the first Space and Science Subcommittee chaired by Colorado Senator John Hickenlooper.