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NASA Wants a Giant Inflatable Bag to Collect and Throw Out Space Junk
Picking up the trash in space could be as easy as stuffing pieces of defunct spacecraft into a giant bag, closing it up, and tossing the pesky space junk into an orbital recycling plant. At least that’s what space startup TransAstra hopes to do with it…
