| Space Junk/Man-Made Debris
"Recent evidence shows that some portions of the spacecraft -- sometimes significant pieces -- may survive reentry and pose a hazard to people and property on the ground."
Source
The quest to go up has long been done, without any regard to the environment. In modern times the left over results of manned spaceflight has left an environment which is increasing dangerous to future space flight as well as to ground assets and people.
View Space Debris in Google Earth:1/2/3
Current Satellite Database
The Global Asteroid Protection Society has a plan which includes cleaning up earth orbit to help assure our assets are not damaged from man-made debris.
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