U.S. Air Force Takes On Dangerous Space Trash With Surveillance Satellites

There's a lot of space debris up there--and we're not talking moon dust: Smashed rocket fragments, dropped tools, flakes of paint even all orbit the planet at dangerous supersonic speeds. There's so much of this detritus, in fact, the USAF is planning a satellite to track it.

An automated Russian cargo ship nearly missed docking with the International Space Station last week, and if it had it would've turned into a seriously large addition to the cloud of space debris--albeit short-lived...