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A NASA diagram of the thousands of man-made objects, 95 percent of which are junk, orbiting the Earth in both low and geosynchronous orbits.![Forty-Four Years of Space Junk]()
Sept. 14, 2006: NASA scientist Mark Matney seen through a fist-sized hole punched through a 3-inch sheet of aluminum in a space-junk impact test.![Forty-Four Years of Space Junk]()
June 1965: Ed White, first American to walk in space, and first to lose something while doing it. He died in the Apollo 1 fire 19 months later.![Forty-Four Years of Space Junk]()
Skylab, seen by astronauts leaving it in Feb. 1974. It then became the largest piece of space junk until it crashed to Earth five years later.![Forty-Four Years of Space Junk]()
A scanning-electron microscope image of a high-velocity particle impact incurred in orbit on a window of space shuttle Columbia in 1992.![Forty-Four Years of Space Junk]()
Sept. 14, 2006: The white arrow points to damage caused by a tiny piece of space junk on a solar panel from the Russian space station Mir.![Forty-Four Years of Space Junk]()
A NASA illustration of all objects, 95 percent of which are junk, in low-Earth orbit.
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