I'm afraid that SHADO's Space Junk solution would actually only make the problem worse.
FAR worse.
The problem with space junk is not the big objects up there, it's the little tiny ones that are hard to track on radar.
A fleck of paint put a scar in one of the Space Shuttle's windows. Something as small as a bolt head could destroy
the space station when it's travelling at 17kilometers per second.
Now, say when you've got something big, like the 3rd stage of Apollo 8 (I think that's what it was in the UFO episode)
You could either leave it where it is, nice, big easy to track, and in a very predictable orbit, or blow it into a million pieces
which are small, illusive and each one just as deadly to satelites and spacecraft. Oh, and now they're scattered all over Earth orbit.
Trust me, the solution to getting rid of space junk is NOT with explosives.
Scott Kellogg
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