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Scientist and adventurer Houston Wade solves problems.

Houston, We Have a (Garbage) Problem Picture this: you're an astronaut, floating peacefully in space, minding your own business. Suddenly, a fleck of paint whizzes by your helmet at 17,500 miles per hour. That's not a shooting star, my friend—it's space junk, and it's a growing problem for our cosmic neighborhood. Since the dawn of the space age, humans have been launching objects into Earth's orbit like there's no tomorrow. We've sent up satellites, rockets, and even a few lucky individuals (shoutout to Yuri Gagarin). But what goes up doesn't always come down, and now we're facing a serious...