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Human-Induced Pollution Reaches New Heights With Space Debris

On Sept. 23, 2020, Jim Bridenstine, head of NASA, tweeted, “Debris is getting worse!” referring to floating junk particles in space, a majority of which lie in the lower Earth orbit. His tweet also mentioned that, throughout 2020, the International Space Station was maneuvered thrice to avoid any collision with the debris moving 18,000 miles per hour.