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Well, we have a lot of trash here on earth. apparently, we do in space, as well. look at that. the european space agency wants to clean up decades of orbiting space junk. it's from things like dead satellites and discarded rockets. the agency plans to send a multiarmed robot into space in 2025 to latch on to the debris. then the machine and its trash will dive back to earth and burn up in the atmosphere. there are about, get this, 170 million pieces of junk in earth orbit right now. but no international rules hold space agencies accountable for it. back on earth, international negotiations t...

Jon: russian spacecraft successfully docking with the international space station. >> we have preliminary booster ignition. jon: the launch of the soyuz spacecraft earlier today called flawless. the three-man crew joining two russians and an american who have been at the station since march. but it is becoming a dirtier and more dangerous job up there. take a look at this image. it captures the massive amount of space junk that's orbiting around our planet and it poses a real danger. joining us now, dr. derrek pitts, chief astronomer of and director the franklin institute planetarium. the movi...

Degrees north and 57 degrees south. that's essentially between new finland and argentina. and that means that only the 1,000 people or so who live innant arcty ka are absolutely safe. the odds of getting hit by space debris since 75% of the earth is covered by water, nasa says the chances are 1 in 3200 some human somewhere will be hit. with 7 billion humans on the planet the chance you'll be hit is 1 in 21 trillion. the chance you'll get hit by lightning this year, 1 in 1 million. the biggest piece of space junk to fall to earth was sky lab in 1979. >> sky lab fell to earth today and as far as...

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